Italian Baroque Masters

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MONTÉ VERDI FRESCOBALDI CAVALLI CORELLI A. SCARLATTI VIVALDI D. SCARLATTI The New Grove-Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most ( comprehensive and up-to-datebody of musical knowledge ever gatheredtogether. The New Grovecomposer biographies have been selectedirom the dictionary to bring the most widely used óf the biographies to a larger audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book pubíication and contains a comprehensive worklist, index and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive discussion ofthe subject's life and works. The riches of the Italian Baroque have been discovered by music lovers only in recent years. From the operas of Monteverdi to the concertos of Vivaldi - through the operas of Cavalli and Alessandro Scarlatti, the keyboard offerings of Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, the serene string music of Corelli - this repertory has been increasingly piaved and recorded over the last two decades. This volume presents authoritative... Tovább

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MONTÉ VERDI FRESCOBALDI CAVALLI CORELLI A. SCARLATTI VIVALDI D. SCARLATTI The New Grove-Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most ( comprehensive and up-to-datebody of musical knowledge ever gatheredtogether. The New Grovecomposer biographies have been selectedirom the dictionary to bring the most widely used óf the biographies to a larger audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book pubíication and contains a comprehensive worklist, index and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive discussion ofthe subject's life and works. The riches of the Italian Baroque have been discovered by music lovers only in recent years. From the operas of Monteverdi to the concertos of Vivaldi - through the operas of Cavalli and Alessandro Scarlatti, the keyboard offerings of Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, the serene string music of Corelli - this repertory has been increasingly piaved and recorded over the last two decades. This volume presents authoritative biographical essays and musical assessments of the six greatest composers of this period, written by a team of leading scholars including Denis Arnold (Professor at Oxford University), Thomas Walker (Professor at Ferrara University) and Donald Grout (formerly Professor at Cornell University). 'The achievements of Monteverdi... are reassessed with great liveliness, originality and depth by Denis Arnold9 Michael Ratcliffe, The Times (London) 'The [Vivaldi] entry by Michael Talbot is thorough and well-judged' BBC Early Music Forum 4 Although concise and packed with information, the article is written with great insight and elegance, bringing out the salient features of Cavalli's style' Denis Stevens, The Musical Quarterly Vissza