Viotti and the Chinnerys
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Viotti and the Chinnerys

A Relationship Charted Through Letters

  1. 320 pages
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eBook - ePub

Viotti and the Chinnerys

A Relationship Charted Through Letters

About this book

The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most significant forces in the history of violin playing. In 1792 he met Margaret and William Chinnery, a wealthy English couple with strong connections in the world of arts and letters. From that point onwards Viotti's life became inextricably bound up with theirs; he moved into their home and became a second father to their children, forming a remarkably successful m gerois. Henceforth, all Viotti's career decisions were taken with this family's welfare in mind. The Chinnery Family Papers feature over 100 Viotti letters and other documents. Drawing extensively on these papers, this book investigates the new light that they cast on Viotti's life and career, as well as the context in which he lived and worked. Fresh insights are given into the reception of Viotti's concertos in London and the solo performances he gave while in England, together with new information on his role as a music teacher in the Chinnery household, and his relationship with Mme de Sta and the Philharmonic Society.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780754631613

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. General Editor’s Series Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Before Paris
  11. 2 Paris, 1782–1792
  12. 3 London, 1793
  13. 4 Letters from the Continent, 1793
  14. 5 The Hanover Square concerts, 1794
  15. 6 Letters from Bath, 1794
  16. 7 The Opera Concert and Chinnery concerts, 1795
  17. 8 Last solo performances and exile, 1796–1798
  18. 9 Paris, 1802
  19. 10 Music at Gillwell, 1801–1807
  20. 11 Gillwell, London, Oxford, Brighton, 1808–1811
  21. 12 At Charles Street, 1812–1814
  22. 13 Paris, 1814
  23. 14 The Philharmonic Society, 1813–1814
  24. 15 Between London and the Continent, 1815–1818
  25. 16 Paris, 1819–1820
  26. 17 Paris, 1821
  27. 18 Viotti’s final years, 1822–1824
  28. 19 After Viotti’s death
  29. Appendix
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index