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Jacopo Peri

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Jacopo Peri

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Italian composer and singer

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Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer and musician whose career began in 1587. He lived from 1561 to 1633 and is associated with the baroque, opera, renaissance, and early music genres. His musical output includes works such as *Rappresentazione di Dafne*, *Gverra d'amore*, *Il natal d'Ercole di Michelagnolo Buonarroti*, *Le musiche di Jacopo Peri ... sopra L'Euridice*, and *Da l'Euridice*.

Records indicate that Peri authored fifteen works, with specific counts of one work in Europeana and five in Crossref. His music has been played 31,258 times by 5,920 listeners on Last.fm. Additionally, his name is referenced in 364 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1561
Died
1633
Works
15

Top works

  • [LʹEuridice. Libretto. Italian] LʹEvridice,dʹOttavio Rinvccini
  • Rappresentazione di Dafne
  • Gverra d'amore
  • Il natal d'Ercole di Michelagnolo Buonarroti
  • Le musiche di Jacopo Peri ... sopra L'Euridice

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
IT
Active from
1561-08-20
Active to
1633-08-12

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5,920
Total plays
31,258

Tags

italianbaroqueoperarenaissanceearly music

Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. He is credited with composing music for the first opera. He composed music for dramatic works, songs, and ricercars. He was a member of a group of poets and musicians known as the Florentine Camerata. The group is credited with creating the earliest operas. In 1598 Peri set the poem Dafne by Ottavio Rinnucini to music. It is the first opera. Only the music for the opera survives. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jacopo+

via Last.fm · Jacopo Peri

Key facts

Born
20 August 1561, Rome or Florence
Died
12 August 1633 (1633-08-12) (aged 71), Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Occupations
Composer singer instrumentalist

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Jacopo Peri, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Jacopo Peri ( Italian: [ˈjaːkopo ˈpɛːri]; 20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).

He is sometimes known by the byname lo Zazzerino (lit. 'the blond one').

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacopo Peri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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