Francesco Cavalli, Italian organist and composer (born 1602)

Francesco Cavalli

Italian composer (1602–1676)

Francesco Cavalli was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure of Venetian musical life, Cavalli wrote more than thirty…