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Alessandro Striggio

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Alessandro Striggio

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Italian composer

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Orfeo di C. Monteverdi
  • L'Orfeo
  • L'Orfeo
  • Orfeo
  • Monteverdi, L'Orfeo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1536
Active to
1592-02-29
classical

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5,989
Total plays
26,397

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renaissanceClassicalItalyitalian16th century

Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – February 29, 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. His son, also named Alessandro Striggio, wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's Orfeo. Striggio senior was born in Mantua, evidently to an aristocratic family. Records of his early life are sparse, but he must have gone to Florence as a young man <a

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Works in European collections

17 objects attributed to Alessandro Striggio, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana