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CESTI , MARC' ANTONIO (162o ?–1669 ?),See also: Italian musical composer, was See also: born at Florence about 162o
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He was a pupil of See also: Carissimi, and after holding a See also: post somewhere in Florence as See also: maestro di cappella entered the papal See also: chapel in 166o
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In 1666 he became See also: Vice-Kapellmeister at Vienna, and died at Venice in 1669
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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)
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He was also a composer of chamber-cantatas, and his operas are notable for the pure and delicate See also: style of their airs, more suited to the chamber than to the stage
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