Amico
Subtitle: the life of Giovanni Battista Viotti
By: Warwick Lister.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780195372403
Subjects: Viotti, Giovanni Battista, -- 1755-1824; Composers -- Italy -- Biography; Violinists -- Italy -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his style continues to pervade to the present day. The last great representative of the Italian tradition that Corelli began, Viotti is often considered the founder of the modern or 19th century French school of violin playing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fontanetto and Turin, 1755-1779; title: Grand tour, 1780-1781; title: Paris, 1782-1792 : performer, composer, teacher; title: Paris, 1789-1792 : entrepreneur; title: Viotti's achievement thus far; title: London, 1792-1798 and exile, 1798-ca. 1800; title: Gillwell, Paris, Oxford, London, ca. 1800-1812; title: London and the continent, 1812-1819; title: Paris and the opéra, 1819-1821; title: Last years, death, and aftermath; title: Epilogue : Viotti's achievement and legacy.