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Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma (Hardcover)
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Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma (Hardcover)
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In 1759 the court of the Italian Duchy of Parma adopted the
inspiration of cultural creators who recommended a reform of
Italian opera along French lines. These writers favored combining
Italian-style music with the wider range of musical genres and
scenic variety of French opera. As the prize-winning music critic
and commentator George W. Loomis shows in this groundbreaking
volume, the young composer Tommaso Traetta was engaged to create
new operas responding to these demands. As Loomis deftly
demonstrates, Traetta's operas were largely oriented toward the
formal aria, a byproduct of making Italian music an essential
component of this cross-cultural fusion. Nevertheless, they were
strikingly innovative in their use of chorus, integrated dance, and
accompanied recitative. Structurally, the operas reflect the French
distinction between scenes of action and divertissements. After a
brief flowering in the 1760s, the project was abandoned, primarily
for lack of interest, but Traetta's Parma operas deserve a
previously unrecognized place in the history of Western music for
their stimulation of opera seria in Italy and beyond. This included
the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose genre-defining Idomeneo
(1781) proved a turning point in the development of opera.
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