Giovanni del Turco

Giovanni del Turco (born June 21, 1577 in Florence , † September 20, 1647 ibid) was an Italian composer at the transition between the music of the Renaissance and that of the early Baroque . Apart from his compositional activity, he carried out several legal and administrative activities for the Medici in the course of his life . The otherwise unoccupied Lorenzo del Turco, of whom isolated compositions have come down, could be a younger brother of Giovanni del Turco.