Alessandro Stradella, 1639-1682: His Life and Music.

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 1996| | Copyright

Carolyn Gianturco. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 13 pls. + xvi + 333 pp. $64.

Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) is one of the few Italian composers between the time of Palestrina and Rossini who was never forgotten, though for a reason that would hardly have pleased him: he was murdered. His assassins and their motives remain unknown, though a prominent Genoese family and its sexual honor (or jealousy) are strongly suspect. A librettist's dream, this, and so it was that in the nineteenth century, when the memory of virtually all the composer's contemporaries was as ...

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