Andreas de Silva

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Andreas de Silva (fl. 1520) was a composer, probably of Portuguese origin, who is known mainly from inclusion of five motets in the Medici Codex. [1] Now attributed to de Silva is a madrigal Che sentisti Madonna, misattributed to Verdelot in 1537.

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References

  1. Winfried Kirsch, Die Motetten des Andreas de Silva (Tutzing: Schneider, 1977),