Author: Giambattista Lorenzi
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 52
Book Description
Il geloso sincerato commedia per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo per prima del corrente anno 1804 [D. Giambattista Lorenzi poeta arcade
Author: Giambattista Lorenzi
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 52
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Josef Mysliveček, "Il Boemo"
Author: Daniel E. Freeman
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Of all the prominent musicians born in Bohemia in the eighteenth century, none is surrounded with as much mystery and mystique as Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), known as "Il Boemo" ("The Bohemian") in Italy among music lovers unable to grapple with his unpronounceable Czech name. Scion of a wealthy family of millers from Prague (and himself a master miller), he acquired training as a composer only in his twenties; nonetheless he quickly became one of the most talented composers active in late eighteenth-century Europe. Despite a composing career of only eighteen years, Myslivecek produced a large and diverse body of work: twenty-seven operas, eight oratorios, many shorter vocal compositions, about fifty symphonies, twenty-nine overtures, sixteen concertos, and one hundred thirty-four instrumental chamber works. Prodigious, successful, and resourceful, he lived most of his adult life as an itinerant composer in Italy, uninterested in employment at any aristocratic or ecclesiastical musical establishment. A friend of both Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart for eight years between 1770 and 1778, his dynamic personality ("full of fire, spirit, and life" according to Wolfgang) is vividly brought to life in the Mozart correspondence - and not only the praiseworthy aspects, but also the air of scandal that often followed him. Complete and accurate information about Myslivecek's biography and works has remained elusive for many years. The present study narrates his life in light of all available biographical documentation, offers analytical discussions of all the genres in which he composed, and for the first time presents catalogs of all his music fully detailing its sources, editions, and recordings. During much of the last century Myslivecek's contributions to music literature were largely forgotten outside the Czech lands, in part, it is argued, because of national biases. In this book Myslivecek's particular style of composition is approached more systematically, and his participation in the creation of what is now recognized as an era of "high classicism" in European art music evaluated more comprehensively than in any previous study. There is also a critical re-appraisal of Myslivecek's relationship with the Mozart family and of his place in Wolfgang's musical development. Some twenty-eight letters in the surviving Mozart family correspondence mention Myslivecek, and for no other composer did Wolfgang express such a degree of affection. Indeed, the full implications of their strong personal rapport invite revision of older assumptions about their standing with each other: through scrutiny of specific works by both composers, the author makes the case the Myslivecek was a distinctive compositional model for the young Mozart.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Of all the prominent musicians born in Bohemia in the eighteenth century, none is surrounded with as much mystery and mystique as Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), known as "Il Boemo" ("The Bohemian") in Italy among music lovers unable to grapple with his unpronounceable Czech name. Scion of a wealthy family of millers from Prague (and himself a master miller), he acquired training as a composer only in his twenties; nonetheless he quickly became one of the most talented composers active in late eighteenth-century Europe. Despite a composing career of only eighteen years, Myslivecek produced a large and diverse body of work: twenty-seven operas, eight oratorios, many shorter vocal compositions, about fifty symphonies, twenty-nine overtures, sixteen concertos, and one hundred thirty-four instrumental chamber works. Prodigious, successful, and resourceful, he lived most of his adult life as an itinerant composer in Italy, uninterested in employment at any aristocratic or ecclesiastical musical establishment. A friend of both Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart for eight years between 1770 and 1778, his dynamic personality ("full of fire, spirit, and life" according to Wolfgang) is vividly brought to life in the Mozart correspondence - and not only the praiseworthy aspects, but also the air of scandal that often followed him. Complete and accurate information about Myslivecek's biography and works has remained elusive for many years. The present study narrates his life in light of all available biographical documentation, offers analytical discussions of all the genres in which he composed, and for the first time presents catalogs of all his music fully detailing its sources, editions, and recordings. During much of the last century Myslivecek's contributions to music literature were largely forgotten outside the Czech lands, in part, it is argued, because of national biases. In this book Myslivecek's particular style of composition is approached more systematically, and his participation in the creation of what is now recognized as an era of "high classicism" in European art music evaluated more comprehensively than in any previous study. There is also a critical re-appraisal of Myslivecek's relationship with the Mozart family and of his place in Wolfgang's musical development. Some twenty-eight letters in the surviving Mozart family correspondence mention Myslivecek, and for no other composer did Wolfgang express such a degree of affection. Indeed, the full implications of their strong personal rapport invite revision of older assumptions about their standing with each other: through scrutiny of specific works by both composers, the author makes the case the Myslivecek was a distinctive compositional model for the young Mozart.
Mozart in Prague
Author: Kathryn L. Libin
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ISBN: 9788088081067
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Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9788088081067
Category :
Languages : en
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Singers of Italian Opera
Author: John Rosselli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521426978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521426978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
L'inganno amoroso, commedia per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo per prima opera del corrente anno 1786
Author:
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 64
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Il Finto Fratello. Commedia per musica [in three acts and in verse] ... da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo in quest'autunno del corrente anno 1730, etc
Author: Gennaro Antonio FEDERICO
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 64
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Il fortunato accidente, commedia per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo per l'opera di carnevale di questo corrente anno 1801
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 36
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Languages : it
Pages : 36
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Il convitato di pietra
Author: Giambattista Lorenzi
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 36
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ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 36
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Le gelosie
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Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 0
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Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 0
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Commedia per musica ... da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo in questo corrente anno 1802
Author: Giovanni Battista Lorenzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 64
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