Giulio Caccini · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1551
- Active to
- 1618
Discography
- Le Nuove Musiche1990
- Intégrale des madrigaux & arias, Volume 1 : Le nuove musiche (1601)1992
- Intégrale des madrigaux & arias, Volume 2 : Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle (1614) (soprano: Maurizia Barazzoni, luth: Sandro Volta)1992
- King of the Low Seas : Arias by Caccini and Puliaschi1996
- Madrigali, Arie & Canzoni2000
- Amor che fai? : Madrigali e Arie2005
- Nuove Musiche2005
- L’Euridice2008
- Italian Baroque Music Edition2011
- L'Euridice2013
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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giulio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Place of birth
- Tivoli
- Place of death
- Florence
- Sibling
- Giovanni Battista Caccini
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Notable work
- Le nuove musiche
- Genre
- Baroque music
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Instrument
- voice
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Giulio Caccini
- date of birth
- 1551-10-08
- date of death
- 1618-12-00
- student
- Francesca Caccini
- start of work period
- 1589-00-00
- P8168
- Cheyenne County
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Works in European collections
8 objects attributed to Giulio Caccini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Euridice: “Non piango e non sospiro”; (Not crying on I); (canzone)/(Giulio Caccini)
Amarilli, mia bella/(Paroles et musique de Giulio Caccini)
Euridice: Non piango e non sospiro (Canzone - Not crying am I); (from “Voices from the Golden Age of Bel Canto”)/(Caccini)
Amarilla/(Caccini)
Canzoni, arie, etc., ad una o più voci con accom pagnamento di Liuto
Die Opern von ihren ersten anfängen bis zur mitte des 18 Iarhunderts. Erster Theil
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giulio Caccini” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.