Michelangelo Faggioli

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 as 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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