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It is mentioned as a specific accomplishment that Philippe de Monte sang for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Fernando de' Medici. Somehow that does not strike me as standing out among the accomplishments of this composer. Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany only succeeded to the throne of the Grand Duchy in 1587, by which time Monte was 65 or 66 and renowned all over Europe. Fernando probably had many people singing in performances at the court. I don't have access to the cited source (Mann 1983, p.5. ISBN0-8357-1402-0), which may perhaps explain more why this is a noteworthy accomplishment. Without further explanation this mention seems slightly odd. --Lambiam10:32, 27 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for noticing; I took it out. Adding cited "facts" to this article was an undergraduate music history class project at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee in December 2007, and unfortunately it seems we never cleaned it up (the students did not always have the proper perspective to determine what was an "accomplishment" worthy of mention at the top of a paragraph). According to Robert Lindell's article in the current New Grove, Monte mentioned in the introduction to his 1600 Il pastor fido that he sang for Ferdinando de' Medici in 1566, but that's not one of his major accomplishments by any means. Antandrus (talk)14:02, 27 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
