Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in

Neapolitan dialect , altname = , states = Italy , region = Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Marche, Molise , ethnicity = ''Mezzogiorno'' Ethnic Italians , speakers = 5.7 million , date ...

Dinko Fabris Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco C ...

''Music In Seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704)'' 2007 "The most important lawyer-composer of cantatas 'in lengua napolitana' is Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733), celebrated author of ...". A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the

opera buffa ''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramm ...

''La Cilla'' in 1706.

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