Erudite and entertaining, Vivaldi's Venice is a biography of the city that was the muse of the mysterious young composer. In Venice all the social classes mingled in their love of music-artistocrats, gondoliers, and workers would meet at all sorts of musical and theatrical entertainments and the city's carnivals went on for months at a time. This book evokes the Venice of Vivaldi's time, an essentially musical city that lived for hedonism. Patrick Barbier and Margaret Crosland Vivaldi's Venice Souvenir Press, 2003 ISBN 0285636707 288 pages Vivaldi, born in 1678, was one of the most influential composers and violinists of his age. Booth Vivaldi (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers) Omnibus Press, 1989 ISBN 0711917272 143 pages Price indication: $ 13.57ĭonna Getzinger and Daniel Felsenfeld Antonio Vivaldi and the Baroque Tradition (Classical Composers) Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1931798206 144 pages Price indication: $ 24.95 Heller's biography presents the important facets of his life, his works, and his influence on music history. Karl Heller Antonio Vivaldi : The Red Priest of Venice Amadeus Press, 2003 ISBN 1574670158 362 pages Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers. 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. 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. 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. Books about Antonio Vivaldi and his music H.
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