Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect.[1] A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa La Cilla in 1706.
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edit- ^ Dinko Fabris Music In Seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) 2007 "The most important lawyer-composer of cantatas 'in lengua napolitana' is Michelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733), celebrated author of ...".
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