Giovanni Andrea Angelini

Background

Giovanni Andrea Bontempi in 1624 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. He was born Giovanni Andrea Angelini but later took the surname of his patron Cesare Bontempi.

Career

Maestro in Rome and Venice, later in the service of the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Elector of Saxony.

Works

• book

  • Historia musica

    (Wrote several works, among them an “ Historia musica” (Pe...)

    1695

• opera

  • Il Paride

    (His Il Paride was the first Italian-language opera to be ...)

    1662

  • Dafne

    (performed in Dresden to open the Opernhaus am Taschenberg)

    1671

  • Jupiter und Jo

    1673