Zur Biographie und den Epigrammen des Komponisten Alessandro Marcello
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Titel: | Zur Biographie und den Epigrammen des Komponisten Alessandro Marcello |
Medientyp: | Buch, Text |
veröffentlicht: |
Franz Steiner Verlag
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Umfang: | 171-185 |
Zusammenfassung: | <p>The Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello published several editions of Latin poems at the beginning of the eighteenth century. These editions, which have not yet been given their due attention from modern scholarship, enable us to correct his erroneous date of birth on the basis of his horoscope. He was not, according to most dictionaries, born in 1684, nor in 1669 as Eleanor Selfridge-Field proposes (The Music of Benedetto and Alessandro Marcello, Oxford 1990), but on 2 February 1673. The Latin poems, in addition to furnishing new insights into his biography, reveal his combined interest in musical composition and performance with painting, sculpturing, poetry, astrology, and chemistry. For the first time, this article describes and correctly lists the editions of his 1,045 Latin epigrams and offers interpretations for a small group of them, namely, for his obscene epigrams in the tradition of Catullus and Martial, the autobiographical poem on his horoscope, and epigrams on his many artistic and scholarly activities.</p> |
ISSN: |
0003-9292
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Datensammlung: | sid-55-col-jstormusic sid-55-col-jstoras3 JSTOR Music Archive JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive |