Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio

In Which Are Incorporated, Translations of His Principal Letters
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-108-01465-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Music

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 2 covers Metastasio's successful Viennese career from 1751 to 1770, and includes the bulk of his correspondence with his friend the famous castrato Farinelli.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burney, Charles

Metastasio, Pietro Antonio

Metastasio, Pietro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Barock (ca. 1600-1750)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.