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unusual facts about Francesco Cavalli


Jerome Roche

Roche published editions of music by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Battista Crivelli and Alessandro Grandi, and rediscovered many works from the period that had become forgotten.


1646 in music

Francesco Cavalli - La prosperità infelice di Giulio Cesare dittatore (lost), with libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Giovanni Francesco Busenello

His libretto for Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (Francesco Cavalli, 1640) is heavily based on Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido, while L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642), set by Monteverdi, is noted among early libretti for the strength and vividness with which the individual characters are sketched.

Marco Faustini

Marco Faustini, like his brother, collaborated with leading composers of his time including Francesco Cavalli, Pietro Andrea Ziani and Antonio Cesti, and hired famous singers such as Anna Renzi, Antonia Coresi and Vincenza Giulia Masotti.


see also

Calisto

La Calisto, an opera by Francesco Cavalli about the mythological character Callisto.

Mutio

Mutio Scevola, an opera by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli