String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples
String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples
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USDDrawing 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.
- Illustrates the crucial role of instrumental music in major Neapolitan music institutions, where scholars have previously focused on opera and song
- Examines aspects of music pedagogy, performance practices, and patronage through careful study of original sources
- Places Neapolitan music culture at the core of the aesthetic and cultural developments of other European centers including Vienna and Paris
Reviews & endorsements
‘Olivieri's monograph represents a significant contribution to the knowledge and artistic understanding of instrumental music in early modern Naples. Based on an array of heretofore unexamined and unknown archival, technical and musical sources, it offers a vivid portrait of the rise of the Cappella Reale, affiliated musicians, burgeoning artistic practices, shifting political regimes, and specific new genres of string music. Yet its focus extends beyond the southern Italian metropolis reaching other significant musical capitals on the Italian peninsula and continent such as Paris and Vienna, to offer a global portrait of the influence and impacts of eighteenth-century Neapolitan virtuosi.
‘Olivieri’s thoroughly researched and meticulously prepared volume is an impressive achievement, … his magnum opus represents a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of not only the importance of instrumental music to the culture of early 18th-century Naples in times of political and social chance but also its wider European impact.’ Mark Pemberton, The Strad
Product details
December 2023Hardback
9781009273688
300 pages
250 × 172 × 20 mm
0.713kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
