Alessandro Striggio
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Italian opera librettist
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- 6
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- Orfeo di C. Monteverdi
- L'Orfeo
- L'Orfeo
- Orfeo
- Monteverdi, L'Orfeo
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Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – February 29, 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. His son, also named Alessandro Striggio, wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's Orfeo. Striggio senior was born in Mantua, evidently to an aristocratic family. Records of his early life are sparse, but he must have gone to Florence as a young man <a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alessandro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Venice
- Place of birth
- Mantua
- Place of death
- Venice
- Occupation
- violist
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Instrument
- violin
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- plague
- date of birth
- 1573-01-01
- date of death
- 1630-06-15
- ethnic group
- Italians
- name in native language
- Alessandro Striggio
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