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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. He...
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    or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini. It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri's earlier Dafne being lost. (Caccini...
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  • Pontormo Jacopo Corsi (1561–1602), Italian composer Jacopo da Leona (died 1277), Italian poet Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), Italian composer Jacopo della Quercia...
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    Dafne (category Operas by Jacopo Peri)
    The mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragments are by Jacopo Corsi. Dafne was first performed during...
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    Rohrwacher, starring Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rosselini. Euridice, an opera by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini with librettist Ottavio Rinuccini (1600) Euridice...
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    Monteverdi Cristóbal de Morales Thomas Morley Jean Mouton Johannes Ockeghem Jacopo Peri Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Michael Praetorius Thomas Tallis John...
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    by Jacopo Peri, Monteverdi, Charpentier, Gluck, Yevstigney Fomin, Harrison Birtwistle, and Matthew Aucoin. Euridice (1600), an opera by Jacopo Peri, the...
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    score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini...
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    drama. Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works...
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  • "Lists Consulted" section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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  • a 22-minute track inspired by the opera Euridice by Italian composer Jacopo Peri. Focus II was released to a mostly positive response and remains one...
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    Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597, he became the first opera...
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    spectacular stagings of the earlier genre known as intermedio. Dafne by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today, although...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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    whether it was meaningful to lump together music as diverse as that of Jacopo Peri, Domenico Scarlatti, and Johann Sebastian Bach under a single rubric...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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    music in general: it appeared in 1597, when the first opera, Dafne, by Jacopo Peri, was created. Since then it has developed parallel to the various musical...
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    the oath", is identified in inscriptions. Dafne (1598), opera by Jacopo Peri and Jacopo Corsi to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini La Dafne (1608), opera...
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    earlier version of the libretto had been set to music in 1597–98 by Jacopo Peri, whose Dafne is generally considered to be the first opera. Gagliano's...
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    son, Mario died in 1369, Mario had few unremarkable later generations; Jacopo (?-1340) who had a son, Averardo (fl. 1363); Francesco (?-?), who had a...
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    madrigal comedy, and the intermedio are seen. Around 1597, Italian composer Jacopo Peri wrote Dafne, the first work to be called an opera today. He also composed...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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    also a patron of the arts, commissioning notable works by Giorgio Vasari, Jacopo Pontormo, Benvenuto Cellini, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. Conversely...
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  • through the work of composers such as Jacopo Peri, working in conjunction with poet Ottavio Rinuccini. In 1598, Peri and Rinuccini produced Dafne, an entire...
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    sponsored a lavish performance of one of the first notable operas, Jacopo Peri's Euridice.[citation needed] For the first two years of his reign, he...
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    Niccolò Machiavelli Humanists and philosophers Pico della Mirandola Marsilio Ficino Scientists Galileo Galilei Musicians Emilio de' Cavalieri Jacopo Peri...
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    Mantua. While Jacopo Peri's Dafne is generally recognised as the first work in the opera genre, and the earliest surviving opera is Peri's Euridice, L'Orfeo...
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    houses across the world. Dafne by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today. Peri's works, however, did not arise out...
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