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CAVALLI, FRANCESCO (1599?-1676)

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CAVALLI, See also:FRANCESCO (1599?-1676) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Crema in 1599 or 1600. His real name was See also:Pier Francesco Caletti-See also:Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his See also:patron, a Venetian nobleman. He became a See also:singer at St See also:Mark's in See also:Venice in 1617, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 See also:maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly important for his operas. He began to write for the See also:stage in 1639 (Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo), and soon established so See also:great a reputation that he was summoned to See also:Paris in 166o to produce an See also:opera (Serse) at the Louvre in See also:honour of the See also:marriage of See also:Louis XIV. He visited Paris again in 1662, bringing out his Ercole Amante. His See also:death occurred in Venice on the ,4th of See also:January 1676. Twenty-seven operas of Cavalli are still extant, most of them being preserved in the library of St Mark at Venice. See also:Monteverde had found opera a musicoliterary experiment, and See also:left it a magnificent dramatic spectacle. Cavalli succeeded in making opera a popular entertainment. He reduced Monteverde's extravagant See also:orchestra to more See also:practical limits, introduced melodious arias into his See also:music and. popular types into his libretti. His operas have all the characteristic exaggerations and absurdities of the 17th See also:century, but they have also a remarkably strong sense of dramatic effect as well as a great musical facility,' and a See also:grotesque See also:humour which was characteristic of Italian See also:grand opera down to the death of Alessandro See also:Scarlatti.

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