Who is was born first, Jacopo Peri or Claudio Monteverdi?
Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (Zazzerino) (20 August 156112 August 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, "Dafne" (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, "Euridice" (1600).
Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi (Piacenza, 2 April 1719 – Venice, 30 March 1762) was an Italian composer. Ciampi was resident in London from 1748 to 1756. He is best known today for a work that cannot be certainly ascribed to his pen: "Tre giorni son che Nina in letto senesta", formerly called Pergolesi's "Nina".