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Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 1550 – 11 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri (the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors), was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era.
Emilio de’ Cavalieri (born c. 1550, Rome [Italy]—died March 11, 1602, Rome) was an Italian composer and one of the earliest to compose dramatic music. A nobleman, he became supervisor of fine arts and entertainments at the court of the grand duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany.
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Jan 25, 2010 · Jan. 25, 2010. LE POèME HARMONIQUE. Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Emilio de’ Cavalieri, though hardly known today, was a friendly competitor of the Florentine Camerata, the group of...
Aug 20, 2019 · Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s mysterious enharmonic passage - YouTube. Early Music Sources. 102K subscribers. Subscribed. 9.8K. 158K views 4 years ago Tuning. For the footnotes and other extra...
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The late sixteenth-century composer Emilio de' Cavalieri is a most important figure not only in the history of music, but also in that of dance. He wrote the music for the final "ballet" of the magnificent intermezzi performed for the 1589 wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine of Lorrain, and created. the choreography as well.*
to resolve, especially in view of Cavalieri's musical involvement in both places for nearly thirty years as well as the Roman activities of his Medici patrons. Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici consecrated S. Maria in Vallicella, the church of the Oratorians, in 1599. The Florentine Ruspoli had a chapel there from 1591. The founder of