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Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. [1] He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).
Aug 16, 2024 · Jacopo Peri (born August 20, 1561, Rome or Florence [Italy]—died August 12, 1633, Florence) was an Italian composer noted for his contribution to the development of dramatic vocal style in early Baroque opera.
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Peri was probably born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medicicourt, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madri...
Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers, and also wrote many other pieces for various court entertainments. None of his pieces are performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such...
Carter, Tim. Jacopo Peri, 1561-1633: his life and works. NY: Garland Pub., 1989. ISBN 0-824-02346-3MacClintock, Carol. The solo song, 1580-1730. NY: W.W. Norton, 1973. ISBN 0-393-09982-2Palisca, Calude V. Humanism in Italian Renaissance musical thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-300-03302-8Sadie, Stanley, ed. "Jacopo Peri," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2Jacopo Peri, the so-called ‘inventor’ of opera, is well known to music historians. To concentrate solely on his Dafne and Euridice , however, is to present a distorted picture of this court musician.
Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer, singer, and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).
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May 11, 2018 · Peri, Jacopo (1561–1633) Italian composer. His musical drama Dafne (1597) is generally regarded as the first opera. His next opera, Euridice (1600), is the earliest complete opera.
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