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Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music.(Book review)
Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music. By Colin Timms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xviii, 422 p. ISBN 0195154738. $99.00.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliography, index.
Colin Timms has synthesized much of his life's scholarly work in his biography of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), and readers interested in Italian and German music of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, especially the widespread phenomenon of Italian dramatic music imported into Germany, owe the author a debt of gratitude for elucidating so clearly the life and works of one of the period's principal figures. If anyone were to write this book it ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff May 30, 1989 700+ words
...in Jordan Hall Monday night. The Capella Agostino Steffani's performance of Steffani's "Enrico Leone" Monday night was not...musical achievements of its time. The Capella Agostino Steffani is resident in Hanover, and celebrated the...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Steffani, Agostino ( b Castelfranco, 25 July...engaged as a diplomat than as a musician. Steffani made an important contribution to the...operatic style was directly influenced by Steffani the most important was Handel.
- FESTIVAL INCLUDES 15 PERFORMANCES AND MORE
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer May 28, 1989 700+ words
...including Parrott's; the Capella Agostino Steffani, an instrumental and vocal...Tremont Temple). The Capella Agostino Steffani will present a concert performance of Agostino Steffani's opera "Enrico Leone" on...
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 8, 2000 700+ words
...to settle on the manuscript of Agostino Steffani's opera La Liberta Contenta three...is the author of the articles on Steffani - the stress comes on the first...still an undergraduate and hit upon Steffani as a subject for his PhD dissertation...
- Vesperi a otto voci con basso continuo, 1675.
- Magazine article from: Notes Kurtzman, Jeffrey December 1, 1997 700+ words
...particularly interesting is that even this late in the century, he, as well as other Italian composers such as Agostino Steffani, Antonio Sartorio (also of St. Mark's), Lorenzo Penna, and Giovanni Paolo Colonna, were not only still writing...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDonald, Neil July 1, 2008 700+ words
...funerals. The theme came from the East and made its European debut as a guitar tune in the 1500s. It was well known to Agostino Steffani, kapellmeister at the court of Hanover during the 1690s, where the action of the film takes place. Moreover...
- HITTING THE HIGH NOTES UW SINGER HAS RARE COUNTERTENOR VOICE.(LIFESTYLE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) Stockinger, Jacob April 25, 2001 700+ words
...madrigal for two sopranos by the early 17th-century Italian composer Barbara Strozzi; a duo for soprano and tenor by Agostino Steffani; a trio sonata for two flutes and harpsichord by Johann Joachim Quantz; and a trio sonata from Telemann's "Musical...
- EDITORIAL: In praise of 'concrete Godzillas'.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA) January 20, 2006 700+ words
...levees. "Levees always fail," says Ed Steffani, head of the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District. Steffani argues for - gasp - Auburn Dam. Also...it's impossible to know whether Steffani's proposals are right. But he's...
