Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians (pdf)

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Author Robert O. Gjerdingen
Edition 1
Edition Year 2020
Format PDF
ISBN 9780190653590
Language English
Number Of Pages 368
Publisher Oxford University Press

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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.

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Author

Robert O. Gjerdingen

Edition

1

Edition Year

2020

Format

PDF

ISBN

9780190653590

Language

English

Number Of Pages

368

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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