All this "who did it first" discussion reminds me of the liner notes on my old "[Johann] Strauss' Greatest Hits" album from years ago where the writer said that it's not the first practitioner whose the most important, but the last, the one who did what cannot be bettered. Although I'm not one to focus strictly on "the greatest" as being the only worthwhile there is something to be said for this. Although not the last by any means it helps explain that while Peri and Caccini may have fought over who wrote the first opera (one was presented first, one was published first) it is Monteverdi's "Orfeo" from about seven years later that holds the greater interest for being the first good (and even great) one.
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