Florentine Camerata

The Florentine Camerata consisted of a circle of poets, musicians, philosophers and scholars, the nobility gathered in Florence from about 1576-1600 to the Count Giovanni de ' Bardi, and later, from 1592, also to the nobles Jacopo Corsi.

The members of the Camerata had a great interest in ancient Greece, particularly at the most faithful re-enactment of ancient dramas. By accepting that the text was then sung, was developed in supposed accordance with the unanimous ancient chant of the Greek tragedy, an entirely new kind of chant, whose goal was the perfect expression of affect and the intelligibility of the text and therefore only of was accompanied some supportive chords of the figured bass: monody. The polyphony, however, was discarded.

Members of the Camerata were the composer Vincenzo Galilei ( father of Galileo Galilei ), Pietro Strozzi, Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini and the poet Gabrielo Chiabrera.

The Camerata was with the composer Jacopo Peri and his work " La Dafne " ( text by Rinuccini, music partly also by Corsi, 1598 ) the founder of the musical genre of opera.

Without the dogmatic claim of the Florentine Camerata, to be in possession of the sole musical truth to acknowledge, took over the now much better known Claudio Monteverdi monody as possible of writing for his own works and helped her to so momentous music history effect.