Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780

by Daniel Heartz

This volume continues the study of the eighteenth century begun in Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School 1740-1780 (1995) by focusing on the capital cities other than Vienna that were most important in the creation and diffusion of new music. It tells of events in Naples, where Vinci and Pergolesi went beyond their pre-1720 models to cultivate opera in a simpler, more direct manner, soon after christened the galant style. No less central was Venice,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393050807
• ISBN13: 9780393050806
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1104 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.6" x 9.4"