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He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 34, Bream is in demand throughout Europe and America as the undisputed successor to the grand master of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia, and as a lutanist already beyond comparison.

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A contemporary of Bach's wrote that if a lutanist lived to be 80, he would spend 60 years merely tuning his instrument.

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Few had heard of John Dowland, the great lutanist of his time in England.

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Let Music, Colour, decorated Verse,      Meditate, each like some sad lutanist, This Paten, and the marvels it uncovers,      Identities of joy and anguish.

From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand