Giacomo Benvenuti (16 March 1885, Toscolano ? 20 January 1943, Barbarano-Salo ) was an Italian composer and musicologist . He was the son of organist Cristoforo Benvenuti and studied at the Liceo Musicale (now the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini ) in Bologna under Luigi Torchi (musicology) and Marco Enrico Bossi (organ). ^[1] In 1919 his collection of songs for voice and piano accompaniment, Canti a una voce : con accompagnamento di pianoforte , was published in Bologna. ^[2] In 1922 he published a collection of 17th-century art songs entitled 35 Arie di vari autori del secolo XVII . Composer Samuel Barber studied the works of Giulio Caccini , Andrea Falconieri , and other early Italian composers under his tutelage in Milan in 1933?1934. ^[3] For the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma he adapted Claudio Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo for a production which premiered on 27 December 1934. ^[4] The adaptation was later used for the first recording of L'Orfeo in 1939, ^[5] which included a performance by the orchestra of La Scala Milan under conductor Ferrucio Calusio . ^{[6] [7]}

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