Real name: Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 1987

Born: c. 1560 (Viadana, Italy)
Died: 1627-05-02 (Gualtieri, Italy)

Lodovico Viadana was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music.