Adam Hambrick - Rockin All Night Long

DIOMED (Diomedes) Kato (Venetus) (1570, Venice - c. 1615, Poland, exact dates of birth and death are unknown) - Polish lute player and composer. OK.1590 arrived in Poland in the retinue of state. Treasurer S. Kostka, from 1601 - a lutenist at the court of Sigismund III Vasa. Known outside Poland as a master of the lute and author of Ch. arr. lute production (published in French, Dutch, German and German tablatures Bezar, Van den Hove, Furmana, Dowland, etc.). D.'s music is basically a homophonic warehouse; in org. fantasies there are elements of imitation. polyphony. His dances in the form of variations are not related to everyday dance. Along with V. Dlugorai and V. Bakfark, D. is an outstanding representative of Polish lute music from the 16th to 17th centuries. Mfr. D. preserved in Polish and foreign print media. D. - also the author of songs on Polish texts; arr. ital. madrigals. Publications: Szczepanska M., Diomedes Cato. Preludia, fantazje, tance i madrygaly na lutnie, Kr., 1953, 1969 (with introduction; Wydawn. Dawnej Muzyki Polskiej, t. 24)