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Opere (Hardcover)
Pietro Metastasio
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R974
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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 1 covers Metastasio's life from his
early childhood until 1751, including his musical debut in Rome
after his tutor's death, and the beginning of his career in Vienna.
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.
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