Michelangelo_Faggioli

Michelangelo Faggioli

Michelangelo Faggioli

Italian lawyer and composer

Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect.[1] A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa La Cilla in 1706.

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    Dinko Fabris 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 ...".


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