Giulio caccini biography of donald

Giulio Caccini ca. Giulio Caccini was born in Rome, the son of Michelangelo Caccini. The only musical instruction that Giulio is known to have received was from Cipione del Palle or Palla , a noted voice teacher in Rome, and it was as a singer that Caccini first made a name for himself. He was employed at the Medicean court in Florence, principally as a singer, from to his death on Dec.

He married twice, both wives being voice pupils of his. He had no children by his second wife, Margherita. Probably about Caccini became a member of the Florentine Camerata, a literary and musical society founded by Count Giovanni de' Bardi, who implies, in a letter to Caccini ca.

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The letter bears out Caccini's claim in the dedication to Bardi dated Dec. In Caccini took part, as performer and conductor, in the wedding festivities of Ferdinand de' Medici. Three years later, when he visited Rome with Bardi as the later's secretary, Caccini sang some of the songs performed earlier at the Florentine Camerata, several of which he published in Le nuove musiche Caccini, who was in charge of the performance, unscrupulously replaced some of Peri's arias with his own.

Three days later Caccini presented Il rapimento di Cefalo, for which he wrote most of the music, but it received little acclaim, unlike Peri's Euridice. Clearly spurred by jealously, Caccini hurriedly composed his own setting of the Euridice libretto and published it, probably in January , shortly before the publication of Peri's version on February 6.

Caccini's version was not performed until Dec. The success of Peri's Euridice, and his patronization by Corsi, Bardi's influential successor, resulted in Caccini's gradual decline in esteem during his remaining years, despite the importance and popularity of Le nuove musiche, and the publication of two other collections by Caccini— Fuggilotio musicale 2d ed.