what type of music did vivaldi write?
Classical music
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 Rinuccini 's libretto is available in a number of editions . The music of the " Lamento " survives because it was published by Monteverdi , in several different versions , independently from the opera . This fragment became a highly influential musical work and was widely imitated ; the " expressive lament " became an integral feature of Italian opera for much of the 17th century . In recent years the " Lamento " has become popular as a concert and recital piece and has been frequently recorded . 

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 Donizetti managed to retrieve the score of L 'ange de Nisida from Joly 's company and reworked it as La favorite ( now more commonly known by its Italian title , La favorita ) in September 1840 for a December premiere in Italy . To circumvent the Italian censors Donizetti agreed to plot modifications ; La favorite is about a medieval King of Castile . 

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 The opera premiered more than three years after Gilbert and Sullivan 's only previous collaboration , Thespis , an 1871 – 72 Christmas season entertainment . In the intervening years , both the author and composer were busy with separate projects . Beginning in 1873 , Gilbert tried several times to get the opera produced before the impresario Richard D 'Oyly Carte suggested that he collaborate on it with Sullivan . Sullivan was pleased with the piece and promptly wrote the music . 

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 As part of his duties to the Gonzaga court , Monteverdi was often required to compose or arrange music for staged performances . These works included a fully @-@ fledged opera , L 'Orfeo , written to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger and presented before the court on 24 February 1607 . This performance pleased the duke , who ordered a repeat showing for 1 March . A contemporary account records that the piece " could not have been done better ... The music , observing due propriety , serves the poetry so well that nothing more beautiful is to be heard anywhere " . Monteverdi was then required to write several pieces for performance at the wedding of the duke 's son and heir Francesco , planned for early May 1608 . These included a musical prologue for Battista Guarini 's play L 'idropica and a setting of the dramatic ballet Il ballo delle ingrate ( " Dance of the Ungrateful Ladies " ) , with a text by Ottavio Rinuccini . There was also to be an opera , though it was not initially certain that Monteverdi would provide this . Other works under consideration were Peri 's Le nozze di Peleo e Titede ( " The marriage of Peleus and Thetis " ) with a libretto by Francesco Cini , and a new setting of Dafne by Marco da Gagliano . In the event , the former was rejected and the latter designated for performance at the 1607 – 08 Carnival . The duke decreed that the wedding opera should be based on the myth of Arianna ( Ariadne ) , and that Rinuccini should write the text . Monteverdi was instructed to provide the music . 

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 The first work now generally considered as an opera is Jacopo Peri 's Dafne of 1597 , closely followed by Euridice ( 1600 ) , for which Peri and Giulio Caccini wrote separate musical settings . Ottavio Rinuccini was the librettist for both Dafne and Euridice . In the new genre a complete story was told through characters , and in addition to choruses and ensembles the vocal parts included recitative , aria and arioso . This was a development from various older forms of musical theatre that had existed since the earliest years of the Italian Renaissance ; such forms included the maschera ( " masque " ) , the ballo ( a dance entertainment , often with sung passages ) , and particularly the intermedio or intermezzo , a short dramatic musical episode inserted as a prologue or entr 'acte between the acts of straight plays . Another format in the later renaissance period was the torneo , or " tournament " , a stylised dramatic spectacle in which the main singing was performed by a narrator . Sub @-@ operatic forms of dramatic music continued to thrive as opera itself developed ; the blurred boundaries that existed for many years between these forms and " opera " has led to debate about how to categorise some works . For example , the precise genre of Monteverdi 's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ( 1624 ) has proved particularly difficult to define . 
