Michelagnolo Galilei (18 December 1575 – 3 January 1631) was an Italian composer and lutenist active mainly in Bavaria and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was born in Florence and, like his father, learned to play the lute at an early age. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was himself a lutenist and music theorist. In 1593 he went to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where foreign musicians were in demand. He was hired in 1607 by the Munich Hofkapelle of Duke Maximilian I. He remained in Munich for the rest of his life.

Most of Galilei’s music is for ten-course lute, mostly published in Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto (Munich, 1620), in tablature notation. The pieces are dances such as galliards, voltas, and correntes, grouped into suites by musical mode; each suite is preceded by a toccata, and the book closes with two paired passamezzos and saltarellos. The music uses dissonances and functional tonal progressions typical of the developing early Baroque style. His style was particularly influential in southern Germany.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelagnolo_Galilei
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975540