From Antico to Zipoli: Listening to three centuries of Italian keyboard music
2021; Oxford University Press; Volume: 49; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/em/caab050
ISSN1741-7260
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoThis batch of recordings charts the evolution of (mostly) Italian keyboard literature between the 16th and 18th centuries. Listen closely, however, and you will find that they trace more than the influence of ‘great composers’ over this formative timespan. What will emerge is a series of portraits of how the publishing house, the instrument workshop, and the varied social milieus of the opera house, royal court and Jesuit church all contributed to the development of keyboard composition. The first album, Glenn Wilson’s Animoso mio desire: 16th-century Italian keyboard favourites (Naxos 8.572983, issued 2015, 60’), is dedicated to the first printed album of keyboard literature: Andrea Antico’s Frottole intabulate da sonare organi Libro Primo (Rome, 1517). As Wilson relates in his informative liner notes, Antico had worked his way into securing a monopoly for printing keyboard music from Pope Leo X, on the grounds that his far more established competitor, Ottaviano...
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