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Jacopo Peri
Jacopo Peri (Zazzerino) (20 August &#;– 12 August ) was an Italiancomposer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera.
He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around ), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice ().
Biography
Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer.
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He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays, intermedi and madrigals.
In the s, Peri became associated with Jacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in Florence.
They believed contemporary art was inferior to classical Greek and Roman works, and decided to attempt to recreate Greek tragedy, as they understo