Jacopo Melani (6 July 1623 – 18 August 1676) was an Italian

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and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

era. He was born and died in

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

, and was the brother of composer

Alessandro Melani Alessandro Melani (4 February 1639 – 3 October 1703) was an Italian composer and the brother of composer Jacopo Melani, and castrato singer Atto Melani. Along with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti, he was one of the leading composers ...

and singer

Atto Melani Atto Melani (30 March 1626, in Pistoia – 4 January 1714, in Paris) was a famous Italian castrato opera singer, also employed as a diplomat and a spy. Life Melani was born in Pistoia, the third of seven sons of a local bell-ringer. He was ca ...

Works

*1655-6: Intermedi (with ''La donna più costante''),

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, Cocomero *1657: '' Il potestà di Colognole'' (''La Tancia'') (libretto G. A. Moniglia), dramma civile rusticale, Florence,

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*1657: ''Scipione in Cartagine'' (libretto Moniglia?), dramma musicale, Florence, Cocomero *1658: ''Il pazzo per forza'' (libretto G. A. Moniglia), dramma civile rusticale, Florence, Teatro della Pergola *1659: ''Il vecchio balordo'' (''Il vecchio burlato'') (libretto Moniglia), dramma civile, Florence, Teatro della Pergola *1661: ''Ercole in Tebe'' (libretto G. A. Moniglia),

festa teatrale The term ''festa teatrale'' (Italian: , plural: ''feste teatrali'' ) refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case ''feste teatrali'' tend to be split into two different sets: ''feste ...

, Florence, Teatro della Pergola *1663: ''Amor vuol inganno'' (''La vedova, ovvero Amor vuol inganno'') (libretto G. A. Moniglia), dramma civile, Florence *1668: '' Girello'' (libretto Filippo Acciaiuoli), dramma musicale burlesco with a prologue by Alessandro Stradella, Rome, Palazzo Colonna *1669: ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse'' (libretto Moniglia), dramma musicale, Pisa, Palazzo dei Medici *1670: ''Enea in Italia'' (libretto Moniglia), dramma musicale, Pisa, Palazzo dei Medici *1674: ''Tacere et amare'' (libretto Moniglia), dramma civile musicale, Florence, Cocomero

References

* ''The Viking Opera Guide'' edited by Amanda Holden. London 1993.

External links

Operone biography page
* 1623 births 1676 deaths Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Italian opera composers Male opera composers People from Pistoia 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub