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Jacopo Peri | |
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 Jacopo Peri | |
| Born | 20 August 1561 |
| Died | 12 August 1633(1633-08-12) (aged 71) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
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Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the lateRenaissance and earlyBaroque periods.[1] He wrote what is considered the firstopera, the mostly lostDafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera,Euridice (1600).
He is sometimes known by thebynamelo Zazzerino (lit. 'the blond one').[2]
Jacopo di Antonio d
ranceso Peri was born in]][P either Rome or Florence to a middle-class family.[3] Peri himself claimed to be from Rome, but considering the pro-Roman sentiments of the reigningFernando de'Medici, it was a disadvantage to be known as a Florentine, which may have motivated Peri to lie about his true birthplace. Nonetheless, he was employed to sing at the Servite monastery of SS. Annunziata in the city of Florence. He likely received an education from the monastery school as well. Due to its size and favour with the Medici court, who attended mass each week, SS. Annunziata was a pipeline for many musical students into musical careers. Because of his talent and education, Peri was able to study inFlorence withCristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number ofchurches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He subsequently began to work in theMedici court around September 1588,[4] first as atenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works wereincidental music for plays,intermedi andmadrigals.
In the 1590s, Peri became associated withJacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in Florence.[1] They believed contemporary art was inferior to classicalGreek andRoman works, and decided to attempt to recreateGreek tragedy, as they understood it. Their work added to that of theFlorentine Camerata of the previous decade, which produced the first experiments inmonody, the solo song style overcontinuo bass which eventually developed intorecitative andaria. Peri and Corsi brought in the poetOttavio Rinuccini to write a text, and the result,Dafne, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera.
Rinuccini and Peri next collaborated onEuridice. This was first performed on 6 October 1600 at thePalazzo Pitti for the wedding of PrincessMarie de' Medici andHenry IV.[5] UnlikeDafne, it has survived to the present day (though it is hardly ever staged, and then only as a historical curio). The work made use ofrecitatives, a new development which went between thearias andchoruses and served to move the action along.
Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers (such asLa Flora withMarco da Gagliano), and also wrote a number of other pieces for various court entertainments. Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death, his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such asClaudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large.
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