The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music,
Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) spent his long life in the service
of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and churches, culminating
in his appointment as maestro of the Tesoro di S. Gennaro and the
Real Cappella. Provenzale was successful in generating significant
profit from a range of musical activities promoted by him with the
participation of his pupils and trusted collaborators. Dinko Fabris
draws on newly discovered archival documents to reconstruct the
career of a musician who became the leader of his musical world,
despite his relatively small musical output. The book examines
Provenzale's surviving works alongside those of his most important
Neapolitan contemporaries (Raimo Di Bartolo, Sabino, Salvatore and
Caresana) and pupils (Fago, Greco, Veneziano and many others),
revealing both stylistic similarities and differences, particularly
in terms of new harmonic practices and the use of Neapolitan
language in opera. Fabris provides both a life and works study of
Provenzale and a conspectus of Neapolitan musical life of the
seventeenth century which so clearly laid the groundwork for
Naples' later status as one of the great musical capitals of
Europe.
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