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Cavalli, (Pietro) Francesco

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Cavalli, (Pietro) Francesco (1602-1676)

Italian composer. He was organist at St Mark's, Venice, and the first to make opera a popular entertainment with such works as Equisto (1643) and Xerxes (1654), later performed in honour of Louis XIV's wedding in Paris. Twenty-seven of his operas survive.

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