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. 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. Michael Talbot Vivaldi (Master Musicians Series) Oxford University Press, 2001 ISBN 0198164971 262 pages 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. This detailed guide examines the work's origin and construction in a way that enables the reader to distinguish what is extraordinary about the Seasons, at the same time providing an ideal introduction to Vivaldi's music in general. 8, represent the composer's remarkable innovation in the field of the Baroque concerto. 8 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) Cambridge University Press, 1996 ISBN 0521406927 120 pages Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons are among the most popular works of all time and these, with the rest of the concertos in Op. Paul Everett and Julian Rushton Vivaldi : The Four Seasons and Other Concertos, Op. and describes particularly well how Vivaldi has been revived."- Booklist "Robbins Landon is marvelously entertaining, extravagantly learned."- The Independent Price indication: $ 10.88 "Belongs on the shelf of every serious music student."- Kirkus "Gives a good feel for Vivaldi's life and times. ![]() 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. 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. Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English. Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently. 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. Robbins Landon Vivaldi : Voice of the Baroque University Of Chicago Press, 1996 ISBN 0226468429 208 pages Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. He thus brought Italian Baroque to a close and made way for the classical era.Books about Antonio Vivaldi and his music H. Far from Bach’s counterpoint or Scarlatti’s inventiveness, Vivaldi preferred the simplicity of the melodic line and evident harmonic sequences. It was only in the mid 20th century that the lightness and elegance of his contrasting vocal exercises and his seductively repeated rhythms were to be fully appreciated. ![]() Despite Johann Sebastian Bach having transcribed certain of his pieces, Vivaldi died in poverty, quite mysteriously, in Vienna where he lived in exile once Venice had tired of his music. Even today, we continue to discover this priest-musician’s several hundred operas. He revolutionised the concerto, which he adapted to a variety of instruments: violin, oboe, mandolin. Inventive, skilful and quick, the work Antonio Vivaldi left is considerable. ![]() Acclaimed throughout Europe, he composed quickly, proved his virtuosity with his ensemble of musicians and produced his operas in all the theatres in Venice. Priest and virtuoso violinist, master of music at the Pietà, a convent for young, orphaned girls, the redheaded composer wrote countless concertos for these young ladies. Antonio Vivaldi is the last representative of Baroque.
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