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Italian composer

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Born
1551
Died
1618
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12

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  • Le nuove musiche di Giulio Caccini detto Romano
  • I maestri del bel canto
  • Italian songs of the 17th and 18th centuries
  • L'Euridice
  • Le nuove musiche

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Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) was an Italian singer and composer. He composed mainly two types of songs: the strophic air and the through-composed madrigal. He served the Medici court in Florence as music director from 1600. In reaction to the polyphonic musical style of the Renaissance, he discussed his ideas for a new style of monody, accompanied solo song, in his Le nuove musiche (1602). The monodies in this publication contain expressive melodies accompanied by block chords rather than the tr

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Giulio Caccini
date of birth
1551-10-08
date of death
1618-12-00
start of work period
1589-00-00
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8 objects attributed to Giulio Caccini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Title page of Le nuove musiche (1601)

Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the most influential creators of the new Baroque style. He was also the father of the composer Francesca Caccini and the singer Settimia Caccini.

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