Giovanni Battista Doni | |
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 Portrait, engraving by Gaetano Vascellini (1745-1805) after G. Irabattesi | |
| Born | |
| Baptised | 13 March 1595 |
| Died | December 1, 1647 (aged 52) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ancient Greek music |
| Institutions | |
Giovanni Battista Doni (bap. 13 March 1595 – 1 December 1647) was an Italian music theorist, classicist and philologist who made an extensive study of ancient Greek music.[1] He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" in solfège.
In his day, he was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist, and from 1640 to 1647 he occupied the Chair of Eloquence at the University of Florence and was a prominent member of the city's Accademia della Crusca, the premier academic philologic society of Florence and Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary and grammar in 1612.