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biography
pronunciation:
[payree]
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| (1561–1633)
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| Composer, born in Rome, Italy. Attached to the Medici family in Florence, he became the leading composer in a group whose aim was to restore the true principles of Greek tragic declamation. Experimenting in an instrumentally accompanied declamatory style, he wrote Dafne (1597–89) and Euridice (1600), with libretti by the poet Ottavio Rinuccini (1562–1621), which have been historically accepted as the first genuine operas. |
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