He was innate at Florence, and deliberate sustaining Carissimi, and when holding the post someplace around Florence when master di cappella entered a apostolic chapel within 1660. Inside 1666 he became Vice-Kapellmeister at Vienna, and died at Venice within 1669.

Cesti is known mainly as a composer of operas, a virtually all celebrated of which were La Don (Venice, 1663) and ''Il Pomo 500'oro'' (Vienna, 1668). He was too the composer of chamber cantatas, & his operas come notable for the pure and delicate style of their airs, further suited to the chamber than to the stage.

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