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Settimia Caccini

Italian singer and composer
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Rebecca Cypess
Assistant professor of musicology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy. Co-editor...
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Born:
Oct. 6, 1591, Florence [Italy]
Died:
c. 1660,, Florence
Movement / Style:
Baroque music
Notable Family Members:
father Giulio Caccini
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Settimia Caccini (born Oct. 6, 1591, Florence [Italy]—died c. 1660, Florence) was an Italian singer and composer, celebrated for her technical and artistic skill. Her surviving compositions are representative of the solo aria in early 17th-century Italy. As was common of professional musicians in the early modern era, Settimia Caccini was born into a musical family and received her initial instruction in voice and composition from her father, the famed singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Settimia has largely been bypassed in the scholarly literature, presumably because, unlike her elder sister Francesca, she did not publish any compositions during her lifetime. ...(100 of 575 words)

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