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CAVALLI, FRANCESCO (1599?-1676)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 563 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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