Hidden Musicians of History: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰: Leonardo da Vinci

Today’s hidden musician isn’t hidden because he was obscure.

 He’s hidden because we talk about everything else first.

Paintings.

 Anatomy.

 Flying machines.

 Notebooks that look like the ramblings of a time-traveler.

But Leonardo da Vinci was also a serious musician.

So serious, in fact, that when he arrived at the court of Milan, he wasn’t hired as an artist.

 He was hired as a musical performer.

Leonardo was an accomplished lutenist, known for improvising so beautifully that audiences would reportedly stop mid-conversation just to listen. He even designed and built his own instruments, including a silver lyre shaped like a horse’s skull. Because of course he did.

Music, to Leonardo, wasn’t decoration.

 It was mathematics.

 Proportion.

 Motion.

 The same thinking that went into his paintings and inventions lived inside sound.

He believed music was visual art you experienced in time.

 Which explains why everything he touched seemed to move.

We remember him for the Mona Lisa’s smile.

 But the people who met him remembered something else first.

The man who could make a room fall silent with a lute.

Leonardo da Vinci

 Inventor

 Artist

 And a musician who understood that creativity doesn’t sit in boxes 

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