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Algarotti, Francesco, Count (1712–1764)| Italian scholar. His libretto Iphigénie en Aulide influenced the text set by Christoph Willibald von Gluck. Among many learned works he wrote a treatise on the reform of opera, Saggio sopra l'opera in musica, criticizing the practices of opera seria (‘serious opera’, treating classical subjects in a formal style), published in 1755. |
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