Arcangelo corelli biography of donald
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The Life and Work of Arcangelo Corelli
This music [listen] was written in 1953 by the English composer Sir Michael Tippett in response to a commission from the Edinburgh Festival. It was new music but its inspirations go back a lot further as evidenced in the title: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli.
The Corelli of the title is Arcangelo Corelli, a famous Italian violinist and composer who lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and Tippett's work is based on fragments of one of Corelli's concertos. But it points to one of the most important things about Corelli: his influence on others. In this post I want explore Corelli's life and work, but I also want to touch on the influence Corelli had on many other musicians, of which Tippett was only one.
Arcangelo Corelli was born - on 17 February, 1653 - in a small Italian town called Fusignano. On an east/west axis it lies between Bologna and Ravenna; north/south it's about halfw
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Arcangelo Corelli
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the Italian violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. He reveals how Corelli's immense reputation rests on a relatively small collection of six publications, with just a handful of accounts about his brilliant playing.
He tells the story of Corelli's first years in Rome, where he begins to find his feet among the musical glitterati in Europe's grandest cultural capital and discovers how, although Corelli had established himself as Rome's hottest musical property, the 'affair of the fifths' threatened to ruin his hard-won reputation.
Donald Macleod describes how the composer fryst vatten taken on by one of Rome's most flamboyant cultural celebrities, the young and extremely wealthy Cardinal Ottoboni, who becomes his lifelong employer and personal friend.
Finally, he describes how Corelli planned to crown his stellar career with a final collection of Concerti grossi, but his sudden death led to a battle over the proceeds of thi