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Composers who have not only created some new operatic forms but have also verbally expressed their respective ideas are understood as the opera reformers. Among them may be named Gluck, Wagner, and Debussy: the latter managed to show another possible path which, as a matter of actual practice, turned out to be different from that of Wagner. The great opera reform is also worth mention: that entails the grounding of the notions of prima pratica and seconda pratica by Vincenzo Galilei and Claudio Monteverdi. Bernd Z...