Vivaldi

by Michael Talbot

Overview

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198164975
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/22/2001
Series:	Composers Across Cultures
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Michael Talbot, Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool, UK

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I Biographical Studies: The fortunes of Vivaldi biography, from Pincherle to the present, Michael Talbot; Antonio Vivaldi e i Vivaldi, Gastone Vio; Antonio Vivaldi prete, Gastone Vio; Vivaldi dagli archivi di Mantova, Claudio Gallico; I nove 'principi di altezza' corrispondenti di Vivaldi e la dedica enigmatica del Concerto RV 574. Alla ricerca dell'indirizzario perduto, Carlo Vitali; Documenti inediti su Vivaldi a Roma, Fabrizio Della Seta; Wenzel von Morzin as a patron of Antonio Vivaldi, Michael Talbot; Vivaldi e il Teatro La Pergola a Firenzi: nuove fonti, William C. Holmes. Part II Source Studies: Towards a Vivaldi chronology, Paul Everett; Vivaldi's marginal markings: clues to sets of instrumental works and their chronology, Paul Everett; Vivaldi at work: the autograph of the 'Gloria' RV 589, Paul Everett; Vivaldi's Quadro? The case of RV Anh. 66 reconsidered, Michael Talbot; La famosa mano di Monsieur Roger: Antonio Vivaldi and his Dutch publishers, Rudolf Rasch; Vivaldi and Lotti: two unknown borrowings in Vivaldi's music, Kees Vlaardingerbroek. Part III Analytical and Genre Studies: Le opere giovanili di Antonio Vivaldi, Federico Maria Sardelli; Vivaldi's 'Crucifixus' in its descriptive and rhetorical context, Jasmin Cameron; Formal structure in Vivaldi's variation sets, Nicholas Lockey; 'Die schwarze Gredel', or the parallel minor key in Vivaldi's instrumental music, Bella Brover-Lubovsky; Ueber die Beziehungen zwischen einigen Concerto- und Sinfonia-Sätzen Vivaldis, Karl Heller; The dramatic in Vivaldi's cantatas, Colin Timms; Vivaldi's Serenatas: long cantatas or short operas?, Michael Talbot; Antonio Vivaldi's setting of Teuzzone: dramatic speech and musical image, Reinhard Strohm; Name Index.

Editorial Reviews

"A very well balanced, closely researched 'life and works' of Vivaldi."—The Literary Review

'A most enlightening introduction to the subject of the 'Red Priest.'"—Early Music

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