Phrynnis

[1] Phrynnis was born in Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, but later lived and made his career at Athens.

Before receiving the instructions of this musician, Phrynnis had been a flute-player, which may partly account for the liberties he took with the music of the cithara.

[6] Phrynnis was the first who gained the victory in the musical contests established by Pericles, in connection with the festivals of the Panathenaic Games,[7] probably in 445 BCE.

[9] An ahistorical version of Phrynnis was used as a main character in the treatise called Phynnis Mitilenaeus by German musician and writer Wolfgang Printz in the 1670s.

This was a sort of moral screed against "beer fiddlers", or Printz's caricature of "overly sensual" musicians.