Alessandro Striggio

Alessandro Striggio

Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the <a href="/en/Renaissance_music" title="Renaissance music" class="wl">Renaissance</a>. He composed numerous <a href="/en/Madrigal_(music)" title="Madrigal (music)" class="mw-redirect wl">madrigals</a> as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of <a href="/en/Madrigal_comedy" title="Madrigal comedy" class="wl">madrigal comedy</a>. His son, also named <a href="/en/Alessandro_Striggio_(ii)" title="Alessandro Striggio (ii)" class="mw-redirect wl">Alessandro Striggio</a>,<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a> wrote the libretto for <a href="/en/Claudio_Monteverdi" title="Claudio Monteverdi" class="wl">Monteverdi's</a> <a href="/en/L'Orfeo" title="L'Orfeo" class="wl">Orfeo</a>.

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Alessandro Striggio was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. His son, also named Alessandro Striggio, wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's Orfeo. 