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Marco Da Gagliano
12+ albums
Classicalitalianearly baroquerenaissanceItaly
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Marco da Gagliano (1 May 1582 – 25 February 1643) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal. He was born in Florence and lived most of his life there. After early study both with a religious confraternity and with Luca Bati, he was employed beginning in 1602 at the church of San Lorenzo for six years as a singing instructor. In 1607 he went to Mantua, where he wrote music for the Gonzaga family, including his impressive operatic setting of Dafne, and in 1609 returned to Florence to become maestro di cappella at the Compagnia dell'Arcangelo Raffaello, the organisation at which he had received his boyhood musical training. Later that same year the Medici made him maestro di cappella of their court, a position he held for 35 years. Gagliano wrote an enormous quantity of music, both sacred and secular, for the Medici, and in addition he was a singer and instrumentalist who entertained them privately. His works include the opera, "Dafne" (1608) which was praised as the best setting of the libretto by Rinuccini—even by Jacopo Peri, the first to write an opera on the text. Meanwhile Gagliano or somebody else changed for him Rinuccini's poetry so strongly that sometimes it is impossible to recognize traces of the original. Peri indicated that Gagliano's way of setting text to music came closer to actual speech than any other, therefore accomplishing the aim of the Florentin
top songs
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La Favolla d'Apollo: 13. Ohimè che vegg’io a 5 "La Dafne"
992La Favolla d'Apollo: 18. Piangete, Ninfe "La Dafne"
883La Favolla d'Apollo: 16. Poi giacque estinto al fine "La Dafne"
644La Favolla d'Apollo: 21. Bella ninfa fuggitiva a 5 "La Dafne"
605La Favolla d'Apollo: 20. Un guardo, un guard’appena "La Dafne"
576Vergine Bella
577La flora: Ballo delle donne turche
368Pastor, levate su, chi vi ritarda il pie
299Io vidi in terra angelici costumi
2810Ballo di donne turche: Sinfonia á 3 - Ballo Grande á 3 - O felici fortunate
20albums
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Gagliano: La flora
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Gagliano : La Dafne
Gagliano: La Dafne
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Stravaganza d'Amore! The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
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Gagiliano: La Dafne
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Wie schon leuchtet der Morgen stern
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Ensemble Doulce Mémoire, Henri IV & Marie De Médicis Messe De Mariage
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Ballo turco: From Venice to Istanbul
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Lute and Vocal Music - Monteverdi, C. / Frescobaldi, G. / Negri, C. / Borrono, P.P. / Caccini, G. (The Italian Lute Song)
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Da Gagliano: Missa in Assumptione Beatae Marice Virginis
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Frescobaldi: Messa sopra l'aria di Fiorenza
La Dafne