Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
In which are Incorporated, Translations of his Principal Letters
3 Volume Paperback Set
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Music
- Authors:
- Charles Burney
- Pietro Metastasio
- Date Published: December 2010
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108014670
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This three-volume biography, first published in 1796, recounts the colourful life of the popular Italian poet and librettist Pietro Trapassi (1698–1782), better known by his pseudonym Metastasio. Charles Burney (1726–1814), a British composer and the author of a celebrated four-volume History of Music published between 1776 and 1789, interweaves his own accounts of the poet's life with Metastasio's original letters translated into English. Metastasio's posthumously published correspondence with his friends and patrons provides the essential thread to understanding his complex life and affairs. The son of a shopkeeper, Metastasio was adopted as a young boy by the director of the Arcadian Academy, Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, who was charmed by the child's extraordinary talent for improvising poetry. Volume 1 covers his childhood and early career, Volume 2 his achievements in Vienna from 1751 to 1770, and Volume 3 his later years.
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- Date Published: December 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108014670
- length: 1364 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 81 mm
- weight: 1.76kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Section I. Birth - Naples - Rome
Section II. Arrival at Vienna
Section III. Extracts of letters to his brother
Section IV. Productions in 1733 - Correspondence with Bettinelli
Section V. Consequences of the demise of the Emperor Charles VI, and the subsequent war
Section VI. Correspondence with Farinelli
Section VII. Further correspondence with Farinelli
Section VIII. Connecting period
Section IX. Further correspondence with Farinelli. Volume 2: Section I. Letters to Sig. d'Argenvilliers, Sig. Filipponi and Farinelli
Section II. Letters to Farinelli
Section III. Letters to Farinelli and others
Section IV. Political information to correspondents during the war between the Empress Queen and the King of Prussia
Section V. Letters to Farinelli and others
Section VI. Letters to Padre Martini and others
Section VII. Letters to Sig. D. Saverio Mattei and others. Volume 3: Section I. Correspondence with Abate Alberti and Abate Fabroni and others
Section II. Correspondence with literary and musical ladies
Section III. Personal information about Metastasio
Section IV. Letters to Farinelli
Appendix.
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