Ottaviano Petrucci, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ottaviano Petrucci

Italian printer

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1466

Place of Birth: Fossombrone, Marche, Italy

Date of Death: 07-May-1539

Profession: businessperson, inventor, music publisher, typographer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ottaviano Petrucci (born in Fossombrone on 18 June 1466 – died on 7 May 1539 in Venice) was an Italian printer.
His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music printed from movable type.
Actually that distinction belongs to the Roman printer Ulrich Han's Missale Romanum of 1476.
Nevertheless, Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type.
He also published numerous works by the most highly regarded composers of the Renaissance, including Josquin des Prez and Antoine Brumel.