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Entangled Histories
"In 1828, Friedrich Overbeck-an artist born in Lübeck, trained in Vienna, and then working in Rome-unveiled what was to become one of his most celebrated paintings, Italia und Germania (fig. I.1) The work was seventeen years in the making, and resulted from a long meditation on the theme of cultural reciprocity and fraternity. Overbeck portrays Italy and Germany as two women holding hands, "a symbolic image of sisterly complementarity between two different cultures." Today, this iconographic choice may seem puzzling in light of later accounts of nineteenth-century Italian and German cultural rivalry; yet at the time, it resonated with the experience of Overbeck and many intellectuals and artists whose lives and careers developed across the Alps and whose works benefitted from the "sisterly complementarity" of the two cultural traditions. Italia und Germania prompts us to reconsider assumptions about early nineteenth-century Italian and German cultural relationships"--
The Neapolitan Creative Economy
This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seventeenth century, Naples became one of the most culturally enriched regions in the Italian peninsula, with internationally known music schools, theatres and opera venues attracting visitors from across Europe in a burgeoning tourist market. This book sheds light on the driving economic factors and political contexts behind this key case study for the early growth of the opera and music sector in Europe. Starting with a discussion of the value of economic history to understanding cultural indus...
Bel Canto Bully
Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja was the influential force behind the careers of a plethora of artists including Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini and the great mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran. In this book, Eisenbeiss unlocks the enigma of this eccentric and fascinating personality that has been hitherto neglected.
Dissemination of Music
The contributors are leading scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The essays examine the history of music publishing from its inception to the early twentieth century. The Dissemination of Music provides new insight into the social history of music, illustrating how certain types of music were made popular because publishers made them more available, and how the reputations of composers were made or broken by the whims of publishers. This important reference work will interest scholars and students in all areas of music This collection brings the history of music publishing into the realm of social history, looking beyond the printing process to examine why and for whom music publishers produced their work. The book shows how technological limitations and printers' and publishers' preferences significantly influenced musical tastes in Europe from medieval times to the modern age.
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The Art of Partimento
At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from the basso continuo that encouraged improvisation as the path to musical fluency. Although the practice vanished in the early nineteenth century, its legacy lived on in the music of the next generation. In The Art of Partimento, performer and music-historian Giorgio Sanguinetti chronicles the history of this long-forgotten Neapolitan art. Sanguinetti has painstakingly reconstructed the oral tradition that accompanied these partimento manuscripts...
Gioachino Rossini
A comprehensive annotated bibliography of all the printed materials on Gioachino Rossini, the famous 19th-century composer
The Playgoer
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IRASM
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