Background
Aaron was born in 1480 in Florence, Toscana, Italy.
Aaron was born in 1480 in Florence, Toscana, Italy.
Very little is known about Aron's early life.
Aaron (or Aron), Pietro was a cantor of boy-choir at Imola, canon and choir-master at Rimini, monk (order of Hospita-lers) at Bergamo, Padua and Venice. Aron was a self-taught musician. He claimed in his Toscanello in musica (1523) that he had been friends with Obrecht, Josquin, and Heinrich Isaac in Florence. If true, the time frame would have been most likely in 1487 (Bergquist 1964, 24). Between 1515 and 1522, he was Church Cantor at the Cathedral of Imola. In 1516 he became a priest there. In February 1523 Aron went to Venice and became cantor of Rimini Cathedral, where he worked for Sebastiano Michiel, who was Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. In 1525, he was "maestro di casa" in a Venetian house. In 1536, after the death of Michiel, he joined a monastery in Bergamo where he remained until death.
Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato
(Venice, partially reproduced and retranslated[vague] into...)
1525Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti, et sentenze intorno al canto fermo et figurato
(Milan, probably posthumous, as the title page bears the i...)
1547Thoscanello de la musica
(Venice, four reprints as Toscanello in musica 1525-1562)
1523"Libri tres de institutione harmonica"
(Treatise in 3 books.)
1516Lucidario in musica di alcune opinione antiche e moderne
1545
