Music
The great 16th-Century black composer erased from history
For hundreds of years, the remarkable Vicente Lusitano has been forgotten. But now, finally, both his music and his story are being heard once more, writes Holly Williams. The Western classical music canon is notoriously white and male – so you might assume that a black Renaissance composer would be …
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