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String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions
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Guido Olivieri (University of Texas, Austin)

String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Culture, Power, and Music Institutions

Guido Olivieri (University of Texas, Austin)

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English
Cambridge University Press
21 December 2023
Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Drawing 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.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 250mm,  Width: 172mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   713g
ISBN:   9781009273688
ISBN 10:   100927368X
Pages:   296
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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.

Guido Olivieri is Professor of Instruction in Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin. He co-edited the volume Arcomelo 2013 (2015), the edition of A. Corelli's Sonate di Assisi (2015), the critical edition of Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto (forthcoming), and published editions and articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century instrumental music.

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'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.' Anthony DelDonna, Georgetown University


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