Luca Marenzio The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation |
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| Author:
| Bizzarini, Marco
Chater, James |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-0516-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's study of the life and work of Marenzio provides valuable insight into the composer's influence and place in history, and features an extensive, up-to-date bibliography and the first published list of archival sources containing references to Marenzio.
Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's study of the life and work of Marenzio provides valuable insight into the composer's influence and place in history, and features an extensive, up-to-date bibliography and the first published list of archival sources containing references to Marenzio.