Author: GERVASONI (Carlo):
Title: Nuova Teoria di Musica Ricavata dall' Odierna Pratica, ossia Metodo Sicuro e Facile in Pratica per ben Apprendere la M0usica, a cui si fanno precedere varie Notizie storico-musicali.
Description: Parma Dalla Stamperia Blanchon, 1812 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 215 x 140 mms., pp. 455 [456 author's note, 457 - 458 Index], engraved portrait of Gervasoni as frontispiece, contemporary quarter calf, gilt spine marbled boards; a very good copy with a contemporary bookseller's stamp on the recto of the first two leaves. Most of the work is given over to short biographies of living or recently deceased composers and performers, most notable Paganini. The Italian music theorist, historian, organist and teacher Carlo Gervasonmi (1762 - 1819) is best known for La ScuoLa di Musica (1800), which, as Grove notes, IS "a basic instructional manual containing much informative material on theoYr and performing practices." Of the present work, Grove records that it "provides an interesting picture of the musical scene in Italy during the late 18th century and the early 19th, as well as useful biographical dictionary of musicians, mostly Italian, of the same period."

Keywords: music biography prose


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