DE' CAVALIERI (DEL CAVALIERE), EMILIO. - Musician, b. in Rome ca. 1550, d. there in 1602. Educated in music out of a youthful passion rather than for professional purposes, his name appears from 1578 to 1584 in the musical events of the oratory of the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Crucifix in S. Marcello. Having moved to Florence to the Medici, he collaborated in 1589 in the musical composition and in the performance of the Intermedi on the occasion of the marriage of Ferdinando de' Medici to Christina of Lorraine. The importance of his functions may be inferred from the performance (1590) that he organized of Tasso's Aminta and from the composition of music for the pastorals Il satiro and La disperazione di Fileno (1590) on a poetic text by Laura Guidicioni Lucchesini and for the Dialogo di Giunone e Minerva (1600) by Guarini, as well as from the spectacle Il gioco della cieca (1595), again on poetry by the Guidicioni. But his name is particularly entrusted to the Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo, performed in the oratory of the Vallicella in Rome (Feb. 1600), with music written to the text of Fr. Agostino Manni, in which there is the first effective affirmation in the religious field of that new monodic style of which E. de' C. may rightly be recognized as one of the first ingenious realizers. The simplicity, almost ascetic, of the dramatic-musical conception achieves effects of penetrating expressive intensity. He wrote other religious music, with the collaboration of Dorisio Isorelli, for the Lamentations and the Responsories of Holy Week, again for the oratory of the Vallicella.
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), coll. 1266–1267.
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Ronga, Luigi. “De' Cavalieri (Del Cavaliere), emilio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1266–1267. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/de-cavalieri-del-cavaliere-emilio.
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Ronga, Luigi. “De' Cavalieri (Del Cavaliere), emilio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1266–1267. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-cavalieri-del-cavaliere-emilio.
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title = {De' Cavalieri (Del Cavaliere), emilio},
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volume = {IV},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/de-cavalieri-del-cavaliere-emilio}
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