Rediscovered Vivaldi Choral Music Played
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By MERAIAH FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
August 9, 2005, 12:35 PM EDT
SYDNEY, Australia -- A choral work recently reattributed to Italian baroque master Antonio Vivaldi after centuries of being wrongly ascribed to one of his contemporaries received its first modern performance Tuesday.
The manuscript was found in the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany, by Janice Stockigt, a musicologist at Melbourne University, who was in her final week of a five-year research project into sacred music played in the German royal court.
A snippet of the 35-minute piece, an 11-movement Dixit Dominis for choir and soloists, was played by an ensemble at the Melbourne University on Tuesday for the first time since its rediscovery as a work by Vivaldi, who is best known as the composer of 'The Four Seasons.'
The piece had been attributed to Baldassarre Galuppi, one of Vivaldi's younger Venetian contemporaries. As Stockigt examined the music, she noticed distinctive patterns that led her to believe it had been wrongly catalogued.
'Essentially, the new work displays all the peculiarities of Vivaldi's general style, peculiarities that are very familiar to musicians, musicologists and music lovers,' Stockigt said in a statement. " more... http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/wire/sns-ap-vivaldi-discovery,0,7838458.story?coll=sns-ap-music-headlines
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By MERAIAH FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
August 9, 2005, 12:35 PM EDT
SYDNEY, Australia -- A choral work recently reattributed to Italian baroque master Antonio Vivaldi after centuries of being wrongly ascribed to one of his contemporaries received its first modern performance Tuesday.
The manuscript was found in the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany, by Janice Stockigt, a musicologist at Melbourne University, who was in her final week of a five-year research project into sacred music played in the German royal court.
A snippet of the 35-minute piece, an 11-movement Dixit Dominis for choir and soloists, was played by an ensemble at the Melbourne University on Tuesday for the first time since its rediscovery as a work by Vivaldi, who is best known as the composer of 'The Four Seasons.'
The piece had been attributed to Baldassarre Galuppi, one of Vivaldi's younger Venetian contemporaries. As Stockigt examined the music, she noticed distinctive patterns that led her to believe it had been wrongly catalogued.
'Essentially, the new work displays all the peculiarities of Vivaldi's general style, peculiarities that are very familiar to musicians, musicologists and music lovers,' Stockigt said in a statement. " more... http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/wire/sns-ap-vivaldi-discovery,0,7838458.story?coll=sns-ap-music-headlines
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