Vivaldi : voice of the baroque

Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins) 1926-2009 (Author).

Summary: Eminent musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon rediscovers the composer through an accessible and musically informed biography. Presenting documentation about Vivaldi discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s, Robbins Landon explores a fascinating life: Vivaldi was a Catholic priest who gave up celebrating Mass almost as soon as he was ordained; we was a lifelong invalid, but could travel all over Europe when it suited him; he was a dazzling violin virtuoso but died a pauper. Robbins Landon masterfully integrates musical analysis and biography, using each to illuminate the other and to unravel the riddle of Vivaldi's identity and extraordinary gift. This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters.

Record details

ISBN: 0226468429
ISBN: 9780226468426
Physical Description: print
208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: London : Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	I. Priest and Music Master -- II. A Career in Opera -- III. 'L'Estro Armonico' -- IV. Violin Wizard -- V. 'The Four Seasons' -- VI. Venice, Mantua and Rome -- VII. The Church Music -- VIII. Patrons, Travels and the Giraud Sisters -- IX. Vivaldi and the Emperor Charles VI -- X. Goldoni and Vivaldi -- XI. Troubles in Ferrara -- XII. The Last Journey: Death in Vienna -- Epilogue-The Durazzo Connection.