Jacopo Corsi
Composer
1561 – 1602
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Who was Jacopo Corsi?
Jacopo Corsi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis. His best-known work is Dafne, whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne is generally accepted as the first opera.
References: Christopher Headington et al., Opera: A History, 1987, pp. 21–22 Donald Jay Grout, A History of Western Music, 1960, p. 278
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