His best-known early work was a setting of Tasso's "Behold the Murmuring Sea".
His best-known early work was a setting of Tasso's "Behold the Murmuring Sea". A student of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, he advocated what he called the seconda prattica method of composing after Artusi attacked the liberties he took with contrapuntal technique in his early books of madrigals. With works like Tirsi e Clori, Andromeda, and L'Orfeo he pioneered the use of opera as a music drama. FTP, who was this Italian composer of The Coronation of Poppea and The Return of Ulysses, the first great operatic composer?
His best-known early work was a setting of Tasso's "Behold the Murmuring Sea".
Claudio Monteverdi