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2023-08-28 13:46:08
Jacopo Peri, 2023
[…] There was a difference in their position: the older composer was also the duke’s confidant, while Peri was “only” a musician and organizer of dramatic events. Peri’s youth was spent in Florence; he had a very good voice and was employed in different churches (it seems he also sang in the choir of the Baptistery). He was a virtuoso player of the theorbo (chitarrone in Italian), a lute with a very long neck. Severo Bonini, a Florentine composer and Peri’s younger contemporary, said that “he could move the hardest heart to tears through his singing” and superb accompaniment. Peri also excelled at playing the organ and keyboard instruments. He was hired at the Medici court in 1588, soon after the accession of Grand Duke Ferdinando I. Like Cavalieri, he took part in composing music for different intermedi (we discussed these “proto-operas” last week), and participated in staging the festivities […]
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