عنوان

Amico :

0195372409

9780195372403

b719988

Amico :

[Book]

the life of Giovanni Battista Viotti /

Warwick Lister.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2009.

xvi, 522 pages :

illustrations, maps, music ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-507) , and indexes.

Fontanetto and Turin, 1755-79 -- Grand tour, 1780-81 -- Paris, 1782-92 : performer, composer, teacher -- Paris, 1789-92 : entrepreneur -- Viotti's achievement thus far -- London, 1792-98, and exile, 1798-ca. 1800 -- Gillwell, Paris, Oxford, London, ca. 1800-1812 -- London and the continent, 1812-19 -- Paris and the opéra, 1819-21 -- Last years, death, and aftermath -- Viotti's achievement and legacy.

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"Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his style continues to pervade to the present day. The last great representative of the Italian tradition that Corelli began, Viotti is often considered the founder of the modern or 19th-century French school of violin playing. In Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti, author Warwick Lister provides the first complete biography in English of this continuously significant violinist. Much of the documentary material Lister cites is previously unknown or not translated. Lister's biography takes the reader on a fascinating journey over the European continent and into the musical culture of the late 18th century. Born one year prior to Mozart and dying three years before Beethoven's death, Viotti rose from the humble origins of a blacksmith's son in a village near Turin, Italy, to international fame. His multifarious career as a concert performer, composer, teacher, opera theater director, and impresario was played out against the backdrop of a dramatically changing world - he served as a court musician for no less a figure than Marie Antoinette before founding an opera house in Paris. Viotti also knew tragedy as well as success: he was forced to flee the French Revolution, he was exiled from England for an extended period based on suspicions of certain Jacobin tendencies, his attempt to establish himself in business met with failure, and he died heavily in debt. Lister concludes Amico by coming to grips with the very things that account for Viotti's greatness and influence: the technical aspects of his violin playing and compositions. With its extensive documentary research and the inclusion of translations of various archival documents, this is the essential English-language biography of Viotti, a significant addition to the libraries of students and scholars of 18th and early 19th century music, as well as violin performers, students, and instructors."--Publisher's description.

Amico.

Viotti, Giovanni Battista,1755-1824.

Viotti, Giovan Battista

Viotti, Giovanni Battista,1755-1824.

Composers-- Italy, Biography.

Violinists-- Italy, Biography.

Composers.

Violinists.

Italy.

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