Post by tango7 on Sept 1, 2015 13:07:09 GMT
Jacobo Peri was an Italian composer and singer working in Florence. He had worked in churches, then later in the Medici court as a singer and keyboardist, then later a composer. At that time, there was a general feeling among Florence's intellectuals that the art of their time was inferior to that of the ancient Greeks, so they became obsessed with trying to recreate Greek tragedy. So with the support ofthe music patron Jacopo Corsi and the poet Ottavio Rinuccini, Jacopo Peri wrote Dafne. According to modern scholarship, it was a long way off from what the ancient Greeks would have recognized, but instead it spawned a whole new form that would last for then next 400 years. Drawing on a new development at the time, Peri established recitatives, melodic speech set to music, as a central part of opera.
The original partitur got lost, but a modern one has been reconstructed by Heinrich Schütz and Reinhard Seehafer. Here is Miriam Hoyer with the Kammerorchester der Europa Philharmonie.
The original partitur got lost, but a modern one has been reconstructed by Heinrich Schütz and Reinhard Seehafer. Here is Miriam Hoyer with the Kammerorchester der Europa Philharmonie.
