Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque

Eminent musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon rediscovers the composer through an accessible and musically informed biography. Presenting documentation about Vivaldi discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s, Robbins Landon explores a fascinating life: Vivaldi was a Catholic priest who gave up celebrating Mass almost as soon as he was ordained; we was a lifelong invalid, but could travel all over Europe when it suited him; he was a dazzling violin virtuoso but died a pauper. Robbins Landon masterfully integrates musical analysis and biography, using each to illuminate the other and to unravel the riddle of Vivaldi's identity and extraordinary gift. This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters.

Author: H. C. Robbins Robbins Landon

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication Date: August 15, 1996

Number of Pages: 208 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0226468429

ISBN-13: 9780226468426