Vivaldi by Michael Talbot (Member of the British Academy Alsop Professor of Music, Member of the British Academy Alsop Professor of Music, Liverpool University)
Vivaldi has emerged during the last decades as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions-including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin sonatas-Michael Talbot examines the life and works of this remarkable musician in their Venetian, Italian, and international settings.