Vicente Lusitano

Vicente Lusitano (c. 1520 – c. 1561)[1][2] was a Portuguese composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance. Some of his works on musical theory and a small number of compositions survive. Lusitano was for a time a Catholic priest and taught in several Italian cities, but later converted to Protestantism.

He is believed to have been of mixed race.[3][4] Since the 1980s, he has been described as the first published black composer.[5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ Schumann, Garrett (5 January 2023). "A Black Composer's Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ Schumann, Garrett (23 April 2020). "Centuries of Silence". VAN Magazine. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. ^ Spicer, Jonathan, ed. (2012). Revealing the African presence in Renaissance Europe. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum. p. 24. ISBN 9780911886788.
  4. ^ Flandreau, Suzanne (1998). "Black Music in the Academy: The Center for Black Music Research". Notes. 55 (1): 26–36. doi:10.2307/900345. JSTOR 900345.
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  6. ^ "Vicente Lusitano, the first published black composer". Radio Three BBC. 28 June 2021.
  7. ^ McHardy, Joseph (16 June 2022). "Vicente Lusitano: Why was the first Black published composer just a footnote in histories?". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ^ Williams, Holly (14 June 2022). "The great 16th-Century black composer erased from history". BBC. Retrieved 18 June 2022.