Jacopo Corsi
Italian composer · Musicians · Lived 1561 to 1602 · aged 41
Jacopo Corsi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis. His best-known work is Dafne (1597/98), whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri.
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Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne is generally accepted as the first opera.
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1561 to 1602 · aged 41
