Locatelli and the Violin Bravura Tradition

by Fulvia Morabito (Editor)

Overview

2014 witnessed the 250th anniversary of the death of two violin virtuosos: Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Bergamo 1695 - Amsterdam 1764) and Jean-Marie Leclair (Lyon 1697 - Paris 1764). The influence of Locatelli's output on the development of violin composition lay in the sphere of virtuosity. The present book explores the figures of Locatelli and Leclair, circumstantiating their relationships and developing new perspectives onto them. The two virtuosos provide a suitable starting-point from which to investigate the violin bravura tradition, which, beginning in Italy, spread through France and the rest of the XIX-century Europe. The volume thus encompasses articles dedicated to Artot, Baillot, Guignon, Guillemain, Mondonville, Paganini, Pagin, Rode, Spohr, Tessarini, Tartini, Ysaye. The authors are: Sallynee Amawat, Fabrizio Ammetto, Alejandra Bejar Bartolo, Paola Besutti, Gregorio Carraro, Etienne Jardin, Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Candida Felici, Priscille Lachat-Sarrete, Simone Laghi, Alessandro Mastropietro, Fulvia Morabito, Paola Palermo, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Rohan H. Stewart-Mac Donald, Michael Talbot, Guillaume Tardif and Neal Zaslaw.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782503555355
Publisher:	Brepols Publishers
Publication date:	04/29/2015
Series:	Studies on Italian Music History , #9
Edition description:	Multilingu
Pages:	405
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Fulvia Morabito is President of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca. In 1994 she joined the editorial staff of the Stichting-Fondazione Pietro Antonio Locatelli (Amsterdam-Cremona), and in 2004 was among the founders of the journal Ad Parnassum and of "Ad Parnassum Studies" series (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). Since 2005 she has been General Editor of the "Monumenta Musica Europea" series (Brepols Publishers) and a member of the scholarly committee of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini's Complete Works.