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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

Italian composer

Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the most influential creators of the new Baroque style. He was also the father of the composer Francesca Caccini and the singer Settimia Caccini.

Life

Little is known about his early life, but he is thought to have been born in Rome, the son of the carpenter Michelangelo Caccini; he was the older brother of the Florentine sculptor Giovanni Caccini. In Rome he studied the lute, the viol and the harp, and began to acquire a reputation as a singer. In the 1560s, Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was so impressed with his talent that he took the young Caccini to Florence for further study.

By 1579, Caccini was singing at the Medici court. He was a tenor, and he was able to accompany himself on the viol or the archlute; he sang at various entertainments, includi

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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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