Celebrating Corelli
2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/em/caq086
ISSN1741-7260
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoThe violinist Arcangelo Corelli's dramatic effect on witnesses—especially when leading large groups in his own compositions—was widely reported by his contemporaries, and inspired fellow musicians from Francesco Geminiani to Georg Muffat. Corelli capitalized on his celebrity in part by cooperating directly with the Amsterdam publisher Roger, as Rudolf Rasch's discovery of contracts between the parties has shown. This arrangement ensured that his six printed collections circulated throughout Europe among a diaspora of Italian musicians who presented and taught his music to instrumentalists, including a growing number of amateur players. Later, as Corelli the violinist-leader faded from memory, his legacy as a composer became more prominent. The 18th-century music historians Charles Burney and John Hawkins called attention to his music, and its importance was consolidated through Joseph Joachim and Friedrich Chrysander's 1888–91 edition of his collected works. Corelli subsequently came to occupy a peculiar historiographical position, characterized as a crucial link in the development of ‘absolute’ music who gathered together and refined the instrumental practices of his age.
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