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Opere (Hardcover)
Pietro Metastasio
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R920
Discovery Miles 9 200
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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.
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 3 covers Metastasio's life and
correspondence from 1770 until his death. It includes notes on
Metastasio's style as well as separate chronologies of his secular
dramas and oratorios.
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