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Marianna Martines - A Woman Composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn (Hardcover)
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Marianna Martines - A Woman Composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Examines the life and compositional oeuvre of prolific eighteenth
century musician, composer, and singer Marianna Martines
(1744-1813). Marianna Martines (1744-1813) was one of the most
accomplished, prolific, and highly honored female musicians of the
eighteenth century. She spent most of her life in a remarkable
household that included celebrated librettist Pietro Metastasio,
who supervised her education and remained a powerful and supportive
mentor. She studied with the young Joseph Haydn, and Vienna knew
her as a gifted, aristocratic singer and keyboard player who
performed for the pleasure of the Empress Maria Theresa. The
regular private concerts she held in her home attracted the
presence and participation of some of Vienna's leading musicians;
Mozart enjoyed playing keyboard duets with her. She composed
prolifically and in a wide variety of genres, vocal and
instrumental, writing church music, oratorios, Italian arias,
sonatas, and concertos. Much of that music survives, and those who
study it, perform it, and listen to it will be impressed today by
its craftsmanship and beauty. This book, the first volume fully
devoted to Martines, examines her life and compositional oeuvre.
Based largely on eighteenth-century printed sources, archival
documents, and letters [including several by Martines herself, most
of them published here for the first time] the book presents a
detailed picture of the small but fascinating world in which she
lived and demonstrates the skillfulness and creativity with which
she manipulated the conventions of the gallant style. Focusing on a
limited number of representative works, and using many musical
examples, it vividly conveys the nature and extent of her
compositional achievementand encourages the future performance of
her works. The late Irving Godt was Professor of Music at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. John A. Rice, independent scholar, is a
member of the Akademie fur Mozart-Forschungin Salzburg.
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