The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister - The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti

A unique look at the career of a little-known contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, presented against a fascinating background of court musical life in late eighteenth-century Germany.

List of contents

Introduction
Becoming a Musician, 1750-73
Setting the Stage: The Early Years of the Oettingen-Wallerstein Hofkapelle
Kraft Ernst Builds a Hofkapelle, 1773-76
Wallerstein Court Musician, 1773-81
The Oettingen-Wallerstein Hofkapelle in the 1780s
Music for a Prince: The Wallerstein Court Repertory
Rosetti in Paris, 1781-82
Years of Achievement and Recognition, 1782-89
Rosetti and the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Hofkapelle, 1789-92
Symphonies
Concertos
Harmoniemusik
Nonliturgical Music for Voice and Orchestra
Music for the Church
Serenade for a Prince and Requiem for a Princess
Chamber Music
Domestic Music: Keyboard Pieces and Lieder in Blumenlese für Klavierliebhaber
Rosetti in Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sterling E. Murray

Product details

• Authors: Sterling E Murray, Sterling E. Murray
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2014
• EAN: 9781580464673
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-467-3
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 238 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 813 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Deutschland, Biografien: allgemein, Europäische Geschichte, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Music / Songbooks