String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-27368-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Drawing on extensive archival work, this book examines the crucial contribution of Neapolitan string virtuosi to the dissemination of instrumental music and to the development of string practices and musical culture in Europe. It presents a fresh look at the central place of instrumental music in early modern Naples and considers aspects of music pedagogy, performance practices, patronage, and musicians' social mobility. Music examples, paintings, and lists of personnel of major music institutions inform the discussion and illustrate the opportunities for social mobility afforded by the music profession. Music production and consumption are considered within their cultural, political, and economic contexts and in connection with the rapid political changes of eighteenth-century Naples. This substantial contribution to the understanding of a previously under-studied repertory places the cultivation of Neapolitan instrumental music at the centre of aesthetic and cultural developments across eighteenth-century Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olivieri, Guido

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Parthenope's violin; 1. Music institutions in Naples; 2. The formation of the Neapolitan string virtuosi; 3. Cello virtuosi; 4. Between Naples and Paris: the string sonata in France; 5. Neapolitan virtuosi in the public sphere: the 'tastes reunite'; 6. Neapolitan instrumental music under the Austrian domination; 7. Under the wings of the imperial eagle: string virtuosi between Naples and Vienna.

Über Autor(innen)

Olivieri, Guido
Guido Olivieri is Professor of Instruction in Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin. He co-edited the volume Arcomelo 2013 (2015), the edition of A. Corelli's Sonate di Assisi (2015), the critical edition of Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto (forthcoming), and published editions and articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century instrumental music.