The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.
The riches of the Italian baroque continue to be discovered by music lovers. From the operas of Monteverdi to the concertos of Vivaldi--through the operas of Cavalli and Alessandro Scarlatti, the serene string music of Corelli--this repertory has been increasingly played and recorded. This volume presents authoritative biographical essays and musical assessments of the six greatest composers of this period, written by a team of leading scholars, including Denis Arnold, Thomas Walker, and Donald Grout.
- ISBN10 0393303608
- ISBN13 9780393303605
- Publish Date 31 December 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 2005
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English