The very designation ‘Caccini’s Ave Maria’ is one that provokes debate. Who is Caccini? And was the piece actually anything to do with him? The answer to the first question is easy: Caccini was a ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Show more Giulio Caccini was one of the most ...

She worked for the Medici family, modelling her career on that of her father Giulio Caccini. Although there is evidence to suggest Caccini wrote at least 16 staged works, only one opera by Caccini ...

Francesca Caccini was born on 18 September 1587 into a highly musical family. Her father, Giulio Caccini was a famed Italian Baroque composer, and her sister, Settimia Caccini, was a well-known singer ...

Francesca Caccini has been hailed as the first female composer to write an opera. However this isn’t necessarily true. The work in question, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, was written ...

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The Rivista Italiana di Musicologia was founded in 1966. Over the years it has published the writings of many important musicologists. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Francesca Caccini and her circle, such as her father, Giulio Caccini, and other composers including Jacopo Peri, Lorenzo Allegri and Marco da Gagliano ...