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.
Author(s): Michael Talbot
Edition: 2nd
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 262
Preface......Page 6
Preface to the 1993 edition......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Illustrations......Page 12
1 The path to rediscovery......Page 13
2 Venice......Page 23
3 The red-haired priest......Page 38
4 Years of travel......Page 60
5 Vivaldi’s musical style......Page 85
6 The instrumental music......Page 106
7 The vocal music......Page 142
Notes to the revised edition......Page 173
Appendix A......Page 186
Appendix B......Page 192
Appendix C......Page 215
Appendix D......Page 224
Appendix E......Page 233
Appendix F......Page 236
Index......Page 241
