biography
pronunciation:
[kacheenee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1550–1618)
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| biography:
| Composer and singer, born in Rome, Italy. With Jacopo Peri he paved the way for opera by setting to music the drama Euridice (1602). Particularly significant was his Nuove musiche (1602), a collection of canzonets and madrigals. |
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