Italy: Guido Aretino (Guido of Arezzo, 991/992 - 1033), Italian musical theorist and the inventor of modern musical notation. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Lorenzo Nencini. (2016)

Guido of Arezzo (also Guido Aretinus, Guido Aretino, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, or Guido d'Arezzo, or Guy of Arezzo also Guy d'Arezzo) (991/992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist of the Medieval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation (staff notation) that replaced neumatic notation; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages (after the writings of Boethius).

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