Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents

Styling the biography of a major composer as a chronological series oforiginal documents accompanied by ample commentaries, an idea pioneeredin O.E. Deutsch¿s Documentary Biography of Handel (1955), has the advantageof revealing with clarity and accuracy the true foundations of our biographicalknowledge of him. Micky White¿s new account of Antonio Vivaldi¿s life, whichuses not only well-known documents but also ones newly discovered by her andother scholars, is the first such study of Vivaldi to adopt this method. It revealsthe composer more clearly than ever in his musical, familial, religious and socialsettings, giving us greater insight into his personality and daily life.The author, who has lived in Venice for many years and devoted herselfassiduously to the task of uncovering new archival information, besides checking,collating and evaluating the already known data, has produced an irreplaceablevade mecum for Vivaldians that will be an essential resource for a long time.The volume is accompanied by a free CD-ROM containing reproductions of theoriginal documents.

Product details

• Authors: Micky White
• Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9788822262219
• ISBN: 978-88-222-6221-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 176 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 652 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Barock, Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Komponisten und Songwriter