Vivaldi S Venice

Author : Patrick Barbier
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111944125

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Vivaldi's Venice by Patrick Barbier Pdf

A detailed evocation of Venice and the city's musical culture that inspired Vivaldi. At the time Venice was, uniquely, a city where all classes mingled in their love of music; aristocrats, gondoliers and the workers met to listen to all types of music. All that is known about Vivaldi's life is included, and all the recent discoveries that have been made about that life (as well as details from Vivaldi's contemporaries). The book captures the hedonistic atmosphere of Venice at the time, already an international tourist destination, and how that was reflected by the mysterious Vivaldi in his baroque music (which is still available in a range of recordings).

Author : Alyssa Palombo
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466882638

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The Violinist of Venice by Alyssa Palombo Pdf

Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music—except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family's palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi. However, what begins as secret lessons swiftly evolves into a passionate, consuming love affair. Adriana's father is intent on seeing her married to a wealthy, prominent member of Venice's patrician class—and a handsome, charming suitor, whom she knows she could love, only complicates matters—but Vivaldi is a priest, making their relationship forbidden in the eyes of the Church and of society. They both know their affair will end upon Adriana's marriage, but she cannot anticipate the events that will force Vivaldi to choose between her and his music. The repercussions of his choice—and of Adriana's own choices—will haunt both of their lives in ways they never imagined. Spanning more than 30 years of Adriana's life, Alyssa Palombo's The Violinist of Venice is a story of passion, music, ambition, and finding the strength to both fall in love and to carry on when it ends.

Author : Susan Adams
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780745953533

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Vivaldi by Susan Adams Pdf

"In this new biography Susan Adams guides us through the life and works of one of the world's most celebrated but long-neglected Baroque composers, Antonio Vivaldi."--Cover flap.

Author : Karl Heller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458412850

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Antonio Vivaldi by Karl Heller Pdf

ANTONIO VIVALDI THE RED PRIEST OF VENICE

Author : Karl Heller
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041103014

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Antonio Vivaldi by Karl Heller Pdf

Chronicles the life of the seventeenth-century composer and discusses his major works, including "The Four Seasons"

Author : Barbara Quick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061758461

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Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick Pdf

In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi—known as the Red Priest of Venice—is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.

Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607344629

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Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Anna Harwell Celenza Pdf

Depicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.

Author : Janice Shefelman
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802853189

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I, Vivaldi by Janice Shefelman Pdf

A picture book biography, told as if by Vivaldi himself, shows the famous musician's energetic personality and steadfast dedication to music.

Author : Laurel Corona
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1401309267

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The Four Seasons by Laurel Corona Pdf

In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city's passions blend in intoxicating ways. Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Ospedale della Pietß, Venice's world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually becomes one of the most powerful women in Venice. Maddalena becomes a violin virtuoso and Antonio Vivaldi's muse. The Four Seasons is a rich, literary imagination of the world of 18th-century Venice and the lives and loves of two extraordinary women. Praise for THE FOUR SEASONS "Pop Vivaldi's masterpiece into the CD player, brew a pot of tea, and prepare to relinquish the rest of your afternoon. Corona brings Venice and Vivaldi to life, delivering a stirring story of love, ambition, and music that will keep you reading long after the last note of the concerto has ended." --Lauren Willig, author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation "Corona does a magnificent job of showing us the violent contradictions of life in 18th-century Venice, through the eyes of two musically gifted orphan sisters. Their relationships with music and particularly with the complex, enigmatic figure of Antonio Vivaldi are sensitively explored. This novel resists the easy clich and really succeeds in drawing a world that is both panoramic and intimate." --Susanne Dunlap, author of Liszt's Kiss "Music and the dangerous, exquisite world of 18th-century Venice form the setting of this poetic, sensual story of two orphaned sisters. The Four Seasons is a beautifully written addition to the handful of fascinating novels about women and the arts in this most intriguing of cities." --Stephanie Cowell, author of Marrying Mozart "Laurel Corona's The Four Seasons is a poignant tale of two sisters, layered exquisitely over the exotic world of brilliant priest/composer Vivaldi and his 18th-century Venice. The result: a vibrant crescendo of hearts and history." --Karen Harper, author of The Last Boleyn and The First Princess of Wales "I've never been to Venice, played a violin, or for that matter carried a tune, but after reading The Four Seasons I feel that I've experienced all three, and through them come to a better understanding of the many forms love takes. Brava, Laurel Corona." --Sally Gunning, author of The Widow's War and Bound

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : 0860787893

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Venetian Music in the Age of Vivaldi by Michael Talbot Pdf

This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical institutions (academies and conservatories), nine with the life and works of Antonio Vivaldi, and five with contemporaries of Vivaldi active in Venice (Albinoni, Marcello, Vinaccesi). A substantial supplementary chapter updates, and where necessary revises, the facts and arguments of the original essays, which collectively date from the years 1973-1995. All the essays are written in English, but many originally appeared in Italian journals and conference proceedings that are hard for English-speaking readers to obtain. The volume is carefully indexed, enabling the reader easily to make connections between the essays.

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351537285

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Vivaldi's Music for Flute and Recorder by Michael Talbot Pdf

Federico Maria Sardelli writes from the perspective of a professional baroque flautist and recorder-player, as well as from that of an experienced and committed scholar, in order to shed light on the bewildering array of sizes and tunings of the recorder and transverse flute families as they relate to Antonio Vivaldi's compositions. Sardelli draws copiously on primary documents to analyse and place in context the capable and surprisingly progressive instrumental technique displayed in Vivaldi's music. The book includes a discussion of the much-disputed chronology of Vivaldi's works, drawing on both internal and external evidence. Each known piece by him in which the flute or the recorder appears is evaluated fully from historical, biographical, technical and aesthetic standpoints. This book is designed to appeal not only to Vivaldi scholars and lovers of the composer's music, but also to players of the two instruments, students of organology and those with an interest in late baroque music in general. Vivaldi is a composer who constantly springs surprises as, even today, new pieces are discovered or old ones reinterpreted. Much has happened since Sardelli's book was first published in Italian, and this new English version takes full account of all these new discoveries and developments. The reader will be left with a much fuller picture of the composer and his times, and the knowledge and insights gained from minutely examining his music for these two wind instruments will be found to have a wider relevance for his work as a whole. Generous music examples and illustrations bring the book's arguments to life.

Author : Michael Collins,Elise K. Kirk
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477300664

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Opera and Vivaldi by Michael Collins,Elise K. Kirk Pdf

From the New York Times review of the Dallas Opera's performance of Orlando furioso and the international symposium on Baroque opera: ". . . it was a serious, thoughtful, consistent and imaginative realization of a beautiful, long-neglected work, one that fully deserved all the loving attention it received. As such, the production and its attendant symposium made a positive contribution to the cause of Baroque opera . . . . " Baroque opera experienced a revival in the late twentieth century. Its popularity, however, has given rise to a number of perplexing and exciting questions regarding literary sources, librettos, theater design, set design, stage movement, and costumes—even the editing of the operas. In 1980, the Dallas Opera produced the American premier of Vivaldi's Orlando furioso, which met with much acclaim. Concurrently an international symposium on the subject of Baroque opera was held at Southern Methodist University. Authorities from around the world met to discuss the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre. Michael Collins and Elise Kirk, deputy chair and chair of the symposium, edited the papers to produce this groundbreaking study, which will be of great interest to music scholars and opera lovers throughout the world. Contributors to Opera and Vivaldi include Shirley Wynne, John Walter Hill, Andrew Porter, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Howard Mayer Brown, William Holmes, Ellen Rosand, and the editors.

Author : Susan Hammond,Classical Kids
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Activity programs in education
ISBN : 1895404282

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Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery by Susan Hammond,Classical Kids Pdf

Classical Kids Teacher's Notes provide additional background information, discussion topics and activities by age group with suggestions for exploring the music, which can be integrated across the curriculum. Available for all Classical Kids recordings.

Author : Walter Kolneder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520016297

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Antonio Vivaldi by Walter Kolneder Pdf

Author : Sarah Bruce Kelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983630401

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Vivaldi's Muse by Sarah Bruce Kelly Pdf

Vivaldi's Muse explores the life of Annina Giro, Antonio Vivaldi's longtime protegee. Annina first falls under the spell of the fiery and intriguing prete rosso (red-haired priest) at a young age, when Vivaldi is resident composer at the court of Mantua, her hometown. Stifled by the problems of her dysfunctional family, she has long dreamed of pursuing operatic stardom, and her attraction to the enchanting Venetian maestro soon becomes inseparable from that dream.