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[ Rochlitz, Für Freunde d. Tonk., I., p. 262. Winterfeld, Gabrieli, II., p. 12. Kiesewetter, Schicks. d. welt. Gesanges, p. 24. E. O. Lindner, Zur Tonkunst, p. 1.]
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[ "Daphne" was adapted by Opitz, and composed by H. Schütz as the first German opera; it was performed in Torgau, 1627 (Fürstenau, Zur Gesch. d. Musik in Dresden, I., p. 97).]
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[ Æsthetic criticism forms the chief part of Steff. Arteagas' well-known work, Le Rivoluzioni del Teatro Musicale Italiano (Bologna, 1783-88. Ven., 1785, three vols.; translated by Forkel. Leipzig, 1782. 8). Less authentic are G. W. Fink, Wesen u. Gesch. d. Oper (Leipzig, 1835), G. Hogarth's Memoirs of the Opera (Lond., 1855), S. Edwards' History of the Opera (London, 1862).]
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[ Cf. Winterfeld, Zur Gesch. heil. Tonkunst, II., p. 337,]
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[ An old copy of his Telemacco indicates it as "opera centesima nona, recitata in Capranica l'anno 1718.">[