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He trained in the Renaissance style, also adept at composing “modern” musicand used dissonances in his music (madrigals) for text expression.
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finest organist of the early Baroque era; greatly influenced J.S. Bach.
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Soprano and the daughter of Giulio Caccini. She was the first woman to compose operas.
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Became the first opera and was composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri.
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Opera was invented in 1600 in Florence, Italy by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri. They wanted to recreate Greek poetry through music.
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Became the first extant opera also composed by Caccini and Peri
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Her mother was a servant to Giulio Strozzi who adopted Barbara. She studied under Francesco Cavalli at the Accademia degli Unisoni - that was founded by Giulio for Barbara.
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The first public opera theater that opened in Venice, Italy in 1637. -
an extended piece for a solo singer that has more elaboration and coherence than recitative.
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Monteverdi composed this when he was 75; early operas were based on mythology- but this was historical; premiered in Venice
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translated to "The Distracted One" in Italian; composed by Strozzi and uses basso continuo accompaniment with theorbo and harpsichord.