1625. =Giovanni Legrenzi= (Bergamo). Composer of seventeen operas, mostly produced in Venice. 1627. The first German opera (_Dafne_) produced. 1628. =Robert Cambert= (Paris). First French composer of opera; at first thoroughly successful, this musician was ousted from his position by Lully, and died in England in 1677. 1632 (?). =Matthew Lock= (Exeter). Composer of incidental music to plays (_The Tempest_, _Macbeth_, etc.), one of which (_Psyche_) was published under the title of “The English Opera.” 1633. =Jean Batiste Lully= (Florence). Migrated to France at an early age; obtained great power at the court of Louis XIV., and monopolized French opera for many years. He wrote at least thirty ballets and twenty operas. Lully died in 1687. 1635. =G. V. Draghi.= Italian composer who settled in England and wrote incidental music and act tunes. 1637. =Bernardo Pasquini= (Tuscany). Wrote a few operas for Rome; a fine polyphonic composer. 1640. =Giovanni Buononcini= (Modena). Father of a more famous son; wrote five operas, which remain in MS. 1645. =Alessandro Stradella= (Venice?), 1645-81. Although more famous for his church music, wrote eleven operas. 1645. =Francesco Rossi= (Bari). Wrote four operas for Venice. 1646. =Johann Thiele= (Naumburg). Composer of opera and also of Singspiel. His Singspiel, _Adam and Eve_, produced in 1678, was the first of such works to be publicly performed in Germany, and is interesting as being the forerunner of many a subsequent work of the same class which has obtained world-wide popularity. 1646. _Akebar, Roi de Mogol_, the first French opera (words and music by the Abbé Mailly), performed at Carpentras. 1649. =Pascal Colasse= (Rheims). Wrote many operas, after the model of Lully. 1650. =Marais.= Composer of French opera; died 1718. 1658. =Henry Purcell= (London), 1658-95. English composer of great dramatic power and of marked originality. Wrote music for many masques, plays, and for the first real English opera, _Dido and Æneas_; had it not been for the powerful personality of Handel, which dwarfed all other matters musical during the time he lived in London, Purcell might have founded a real school of English opera. Chief works: _Dido and Æneas_ (1677), _The Indian Queen_ (1690), Dryden’s _Tempest_ (1690), _Dioclesian_ (1690), _King Arthur_ (1691), _Bonduca_ (1695).