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Re: Utopia Triumphans
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Scott Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 May 2001 14:41:49 -0500
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Aaron J. Rabushka asks:

>>Is this the same Alessandro Striggio who wrote libretti for Monteverdi?
>>If so it's interesting to know that he wrote music too!

Satoshi Akima replies:

>I doubt it is the same person.  The composer Alessandro Striggio was born
>circa 1535 and died in 1592.  Monteverdi was born in 1567 and died in 1643.
>Monteverdi's did not write his first opera, Orfeo, until 1607, long after
>Striggio had died.

Alessandro Striggio the librettist (b.  1573) was the son of Alessandro
Striggio the composer.

Scott Morrison

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