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A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of
Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca
Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years.
Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her
performances and the sparkling wit of the music she composed for
more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered
today as the first woman to have composed opera. Francesca Caccini
at the Medici Court reveals for the first time how this
multitalented composer established a fully professional musical
career at a time when virtually no other women were able to achieve
comparable success. Suzanne Cusick argues that Caccini's career
depended on the usefulness of her talents to the political agenda
of Grand Duchess Christine de Lorraine, Tuscany's de facto regent
from 1606 to 1636. Drawing on Classical and feminist theory, Cusick
shows how the music Caccini made for the Medici court sustained the
culture that enabled Christine's power, thereby also supporting the
sexual and political aims of its women. In bringing Caccini's
surprising story so vividly to life, Cusick ultimately illuminates
how music making functioned in early modern Italy as a significant
medium for the circulation of power.
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