Full E-book Marianna Martines: A Woman Composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn Review
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This first volume fully devoted to the life and work of musician Marianna Martines (1744-1813) is based largely on eighteenth-century printed sources, archival documents, and letters (including several by Martines herself, most of them published here for the first time). Godt here presents a detailed picture of the small but fascinating world Martines inhabited. She spent most of her life in a remarkable household that included celebrated librettist Pietro Metastasio, who supervised her education and remained a powerful and supportive mentor. She studied with the young Joseph Haydn, and Vienna knew her as a gifted, aristocratic singer and keyboard player. Focusing on a limited number of representative works, the book vividly conveys the nature and extent of Martines's compositional achievements and encourages future performance of her works.
This first volume fully devoted to the life and work of musician Marianna Martines (1744-1813) is based largely on eighteenth-century printed sources, archival documents, and letters (including several by Martines herself, most of them published here for the first time). Godt here presents a detailed picture of the small but fascinating world Martines inhabited. She spent most of her life in a remarkable household that included celebrated librettist Pietro Metastasio, who supervised her education and remained a powerful and supportive mentor. She studied with the young Joseph Haydn, and Vienna knew her as a gifted, aristocratic singer and keyboard player. Focusing on a limited number of representative works, the book vividly conveys the nature and extent of Martines's compositional achievements and encourages future performance of her works.