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Giulio Caccini was a singer, composer, and theorist active in Florence in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Today he is known mainly for a single song, “Amarilli, mia bella,” often sung by beginning voice students. The Florentine musician’s significance goes far beyond “Amarilli,” however. In fact, Caccini helped create a new style of solo singing and a new type of musical drama – one that we now call opera.

Early Training

Caccini was born in Rome on October 8, 1551. His father was Michelangelo Caccini, a carpenter from the small town of Montopoli, near Pisa. Caccini was the middle brother of three; Orazio, the eldest, was also a musician, and Giovanni, the youngest, was a sculptor.

Little is known about Caccini’s early education, but in 1564, while still a boy, he sang soprano in the prestigious Cappella Giulia at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. There he continued his studies with the maestro di cappella, Giovanni Animuccia. A year later, C

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Giulio Caccini, classical music composer

Giulio Caccini

Biography

Giulio Caccini was one of the most important and influential composers, a truly innovative thinker, during the transition between the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. His efforts in creating a vocal style in which the words were clearly intelligible and their meaning amplified by a melody accompanied only with simple chords and dissonances became the foundation of the operatic recitative. In addition, he was an influential writer and his sole opera Euridice, though not the first to be composed, was certainly the first to appear out of Florence in printed form.

Little is known of Caccini's early life. He was born around 1545, the son of a carpenter, likely in Rome. His early musical studies took place in Rome, where he studied the lute, viol, and harp, as well as gained a reputation as a capable singer. Indeed, his talents as a singer captivated Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and in time he was singing at the Medici court and continuing his musical studies in Florence. Despite his talent

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Francesca Caccini

Italian composer

"La Cecchina (singer)" redirects here. For the opera known as La Cecchina, see La buona figliuola.

Francesca Caccini ([franˈtʃeskakatˈtʃiːni]; 18 September 1587 – between 1641 and 1645 most likely; or she may have remarried.^[1]) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" [latʃekˈkiːna], given to her by the Florentines and probably a diminutive of "Francesca".^[2] She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini. Her only surviving stage work, La liberazione di Ruggiero, is widely considered the oldest opera by a woman composer.^[3] As a female composer she helped to solidify the agency and the cultural and political programs of her female patron.^[4]

Personal life

Early life

Caccini was born in Florence, and received a humanistic education (Latin, some Greek, as well as modern languages and literature, mathematics) in addition to early musical training with her father. Acco