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Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque

Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque

Landon, H. C. Robbins

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0226468429
ISBN13: 9780226468426
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 15 1996
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently.

Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English. Landon rediscovers the composer in this accessible and musically informed biography while presenting documentation of the musician's life discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s. This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters, thoroughly evoking the style of the time and revealing some of the more personal aspects of Vivaldi's life.

Belongs on the shelf of every serious music student.--Kirkus

Gives a good feel for Vivaldi's life and times . . . and describes particularly well how Vivaldi has been revived.--Booklist

Robbins Landon is marvelously entertaining, extravagantly learned.--The Independent

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