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Child Composers in the Old Conservatories - How Orphans Became Elite Musicians (Hardcover)
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Child Composers in the Old Conservatories - How Orphans Became Elite Musicians (Hardcover)
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In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political
uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and
orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of
private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system of
conservatori was created to house, nurture, and train these
fanciulli vaganti (roaming children) to become hatters, shoemakers,
tailors, goldsmiths, cabinet makers, and musicians - a range of
practical trades that might sustain them and enable them to
contribute to society. Conservatori were founded across Italy, from
Venice and Florence to Parma and Naples, many specializing in a
particular trade. Four music conservatori in Naples gained
particular renown for their exceptional training of musicians, both
performers and composers, all boys. By the eighteenth century, the
graduates of the Naples conservatories began to spread across
Europe, with some 600 boys formerly in residence beginning to
dominate the European musical world. Other conservatories in the
country - including the Paris Conservatory - began to imitate the
principles of the Naples' conservatory's training, known as the
partimento tradition. The daily lessons and exercises associated
with this tradition were largely lost-until author Robert
Gjerdingen discovered evidence of them in the archives of
conservatories across Italy and the rest of Europe. Compellingly
narrated and richly illustrated, Child Composers in the Old
Conservatory follows the story of these boys as they undergo
rigorous training with the conservatory's maestri and eventually
become maestri themselves, then moves forward in time to see the
influence of partimenti in the training of such composers as Claude
Debussy and Colette Boyer. Advocating for the revival of partimenti
in modern music education, the book explores the tremendous
potential of this tradition to enable natural musical fluency for
students of all ages learning the craft today.
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