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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio: In Which Are Incorporated, Translations of His Principal Letters

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio: In Which Are Incorporated, Translations of His Principal Letters

Burney, Charles
Metastasio, Pietro Antonio
Charles, Burney

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Biographies GeneralGeneral MusicGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1108014658
ISBN13: 9781108014656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 31 2010
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This three-volume biography, first published in 1796, recounts the colourful life of the popular Italian poet and librettist Pietro Trapassi (1698-1782), better known by his pseudonym Metastasio. Charles Burney (1726-1814), a British composer and the author of a celebrated four-volume History of Music published between 1776 and 1789, interweaves his own accounts of the poet's life with Metastasio's original letters translated into English. Metastasio's posthumously published correspondence with his friends and patrons provides the essential thread to understanding his complex life and affairs. The son of a shopkeeper, Metastasio was adopted as a young boy by the director of the Arcadian Academy, Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, who was charmed by the child's extraordinary talent for improvising poetry. Volume 2 covers Metastasio's successful Viennese career from 1751 to 1770, and includes the bulk of his correspondence with his friend the famous castrato Farinelli.

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