The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research,
drawing on the author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian
music over four decades.
The Vivaldi Compendium will serve as the most reliable and up-to-date
source of quick reference on the composer Antonio Vivaldi and his music.
This takes the form of a dictionary listing persons, places, musical
works and many other topics connected with Vivaldi; its alphabetically
arranged entries are copiously cross-referenced to guide the reader
towards related topics. The Vivaldi Compendium also provides a gateway
to further reading via an extensive bibliography, to which reference is
made in most of the dictionary entries. These two sections are
complemented by a biography of the composer and a carefully organized
list of his works.
Knowledge about Vivaldi and his music is still advancing at an
incredible rate - many discoveries occurred while the book was in
preparation - and every effort has been made to ensure that The Vivaldi
Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the
author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four
decades.
MICHAEL TALBOT is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of
Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. He isknown
internationally for his studies of late-baroque Italian music, which
include recent books on Vivaldi's chamber cantatas [2003] and the same
composer's fugal writing [2007].
