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A detailed evocation of Venice and the city's musical culture that inspired Vivaldi. At the time Venice was, uniquely, a city where all classes mingled in their love of music; aristocrats, gondoliers and the workers met to listen to all types of music. All that is known about Vivaldi's life is included, and all the recent discoveries that have been made about that life (as well as details from Vivaldi's contemporaries). The book captures the hedonistic atmosphere of Venice at the time, already an international tourist destination, and how that was reflected by the mysterious Vivaldi in his baroque music (which is still available in a range of recordings).
Patrick Barbier
Historien de la musique et italianiste, Patrick Barbier est professeur émérite de l’Université catholique de l’Ouest (Angers). Il est vice-chancelier de l’Académie littéraire de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire (Nantes) et président du Centro Studi Farinelli (Bologne).
Auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur la musique et la société, il a publié chez Grasset: Histoire des Castrats (1989), traduite en douze langues, Farinelli (1994), La Maison des Italiens (1998), La Venise de Vivaldi (2002), Pauline Viardot (2009), Naples en fête (2012) et Pour l’amour du baroque (2019). Son Voyage dans la Rome baroque (2016) a obtenu le Prix Thiers de l’Académie Française en 2017.
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