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.
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"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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Michael Talbot, Member of the British Academy; Alsop Professor of Music, Liverpool University.
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By the 'rediscovery' of a composer we seldom mean much more than his rescue from a presumably unmerited neglect, and sometimes as little as the dutiful revival of some of his major works on the anniversary of his birth or death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
finto pazzo, juditha triumphans, obbligato organ, studi vivaldiani, ritornello form, sacred vocal works, teatro alla moda, sacred vocal music, musique instrumentale, alto viola, chamber concertos, solo cantatas, three concertos, rivista musicale italiana, trio sonatas, solo concertos, oboe concertos, flute concertos, cello sonatas, pastor fido, string orchestra, instrumental works, solo violin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista, Dixit Dominus, Tito Manlio, Giovanni Grisostomo, Prete Rosso, Benedetto Marcello, Gastone Vio, Stabat Mater, Walter Kolneder, Anna Giro, Arcadian Academy, Biblioteca Nazionale, Lauda Jerusalem, Remo Giazotto, Antonio Conti, Antonio Lucio, Central Library, Charles Jennens, Council of Ten, Denis Arnold, Edward Holdsworth, Michael Talbot, Miss Annina, Museo Correr New!
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By the 'rediscovery' of a composer we seldom mean much more than his rescue from a presumably unmerited neglect, and sometimes as little as the dutiful revival of some of his major works on the anniversary of his birth or death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
finto pazzo, juditha triumphans, obbligato organ, studi vivaldiani, ritornello form, sacred vocal works, teatro alla moda, sacred vocal music, musique instrumentale, alto viola, chamber concertos, solo cantatas, three concertos, rivista musicale italiana, trio sonatas, solo concertos, oboe concertos, flute concertos, cello sonatas, pastor fido, string orchestra, instrumental works, solo violin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista, Dixit Dominus, Tito Manlio, Giovanni Grisostomo, Prete Rosso, Benedetto Marcello, Gastone Vio, Stabat Mater, Walter Kolneder, Anna Giro, Arcadian Academy, Biblioteca Nazionale, Lauda Jerusalem, Remo Giazotto, Antonio Conti, Antonio Lucio, Central Library, Charles Jennens, Council of Ten, Denis Arnold, Edward Holdsworth, Michael Talbot, Miss Annina, Museo Correr New!
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- The Four Seasons (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Antonio Vivaldi on 5 pages
- Dixit Dominus: for Chorus and Orchestra by Georg Friedrich Handel on page 159, page 165, and page 168
- Antonio Vivaldi; His Life And Work. by Walter Kolneder on page 9, page 91, and Back Matter
- Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Vaughan Williams (Master Musicians) by James Day in Front Matter
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