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Genre/Form: | Biography Biografieën (vorm) |
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Named Person: | Marianne Martinez; Marianne Martinez; Marianne Martinez; Marianne Martinez; Marianna Martines |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Irving Godt; John A Rice |
ISBN: | 9781580463515 1580463517 |
OCLC Number: | 464594222 |
Description: | xvi, 299 pages : illustrations, music (some color), map ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The scene and the players -- The young musician -- Early works -- The musical dramatist -- Italian psalms -- Padre Martini and the Dixit Dominus -- Family honors and private music making -- Isacco figura del redentore and the death of Metastasio -- "Countless artistic pleasures": Martines as musical hostess and teacher. |
Series Title: | Eastman studies in music. |
Responsibility: | Irving Godt ; edited with contributions by John A. Rice. |
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Breaks new ground. . . . The ample provision of examples (from works not necessarily easily accessible to most readers) together with Godt's thorough sifting of the archival sources have created a satisfying account of a noteworthy figure. . . now deservedly restored to a . . . prominent place on the historical scene. . . . A welcome contribution to the history of music in eighteenth-century Vienna. . . . An unusual woman who may well have influenced her male contemporaries, as well as being influenced by them. MUSIC & LETTERS [Susan Wollenberg] Solidly researched and hitherto unpublished or little-known empirical documentation. . . . Offers for the first time a full record of Martines's works. . . . Emphatically refut[es] the nineteenth-century view . . . that disregarded Martines's compositional achievements. . . . Will undoubtedly appeal to a wide readership among scholars of eighteenth-century studies. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES [Yael Sela] Makes a strong case for Martines's creativity as a composer in the galant style. The strengths of this volume result from Rice's significant editing as well as from the pioneering research by the late Godt. SUMMING UP: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE [J. Michele Edwards] Godt and Rice's volume . . . sets new standards [for books on women composers] by rejecting any vestige of special pleading, and by including such an abundance of substantial musical extracts as to entrust Martines's reputation to the judgement of its readers. . . . Rice's contribution enriches the book considerably. MUSICAL TIMES [Patricia Howard] Marianna Martines's excellence as a composer has, until now, been unsuspected. Irving Godt left no stone unturned in his research about Martines's life and works. The well-chosen musical examples give the music world for the first time an opportunity to become aware of the high quality and appeal of Martines's work. Through quotations from letters, journals, and travelers' accounts, we see how an eighteenth-century aristocratic woman could, thanks in part to a prominent mentor [here, the court poet Metastasio], achieve a significant international reputation. Marita Petzoldt McClymonds, Professor Emerita of Music, University of Virginia Read more...
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- Martinez, Marianne, -- 1744-1812.
- Women composers -- Austria -- Biography.
- Women composers.
- Austria.
- Martinez, Marianne -- 1744-1812
- Componisten.
- Vrouwen.
- Muziekwerken.
- Muziekleven.
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