![]() 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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