Caccini_And_Casulana

Caccini And Casulana Francesca Caccini and Maddalena Casulana were very influential composers of their time. Both of them had their own style of composition because of where they composed. They were also both seen differently and lead their lives in different ways. Francesca Caccini was born in Florence on September 18, 1587 to a musical family. When she was very young she learned harpsichord, lute, how to sing, music theory, and composition from her father, Giulio Caccini. As she grew older, many famous male composers, such as Monteverdi saw her as being able to sing and play instruments “all very well.” Her first performance as a singer was at the wedding of Maria de' Medici and Henri IV, King of France in 1600. Though she was good at these forms of entertainment, she was most valued as a composer. In her late teens, she began her composing alongside Michelangelo Buonaroti the Younger as the lyricist. Caccini was the first composer to compose an Italian opera performed outside of Italy. She composed a total of five operas, which she called “ballettos.” These ballettos were written with court dramatists and a large amount of sacred and madrigals, very, music, composer, caccini, voices, first, both, book, casulana, words, time, singer, one, maddalena, four, di, composed, women, seems, primo, pieces, piece, own, libro, il, florence, dedicated, composition, composing, composers, another, written, wanted, valued