The leading Jewish composer of the late Italian Renaissance, and musical director to the Ducal court of Mantua. He was an innovator of polyphonic music and the most noted Italian-Jewish musician of his time. He had his own orchestra and when invited by Alessandro, duke of Mirandola, he was invited as "the Jew Salamon and his company". His most famous compositions is Ha-Shirim Asher li-Shelomo, 33 pieces for traditional Hebrew texts, and other religious poems for the synagogue service.