Note 133 — Chapter XI · THE BEGINNINGS OF OPERA AND ORATORIO

Emilio de’ Cavalieri (or del Cavaliere), b. ca. 1550; d. March 11th, 1662, in Rome, was, before his appointment at Florence, organist of the Oratorio del S. Cruciffisso in S. Marcello (Rome). His earliest works are madrigals, as we know from a reference to the “eighty-sixth, in six parts,” in his preface to the Rappresentazione.