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CESTI  , MARC'

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ANTONIO (162o ?–1669 ?),
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Italian musical composer, was
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born at
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Florence about 162o . He was a
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pupil of
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Carissimi, and after holding a
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post somewhere in Florence as
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maestro di cappella entered the papal
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chapel in 166o . In 1666 he became
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Vice-Kapellmeister at
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Vienna, and died at
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Venice in 1669 . Cesti is known principally as a composer of operas, the most celebrated of which were La Dori (Venice, 1663) and II Pomo d' oro (Vienna, 1668) . He was also a composer of chamber-cantatas, and his operas are notable for the pure and delicate
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style of their airs, more suited to the chamber than to the
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stage .

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