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The career of Giovanni Battista Sammartini (Milan, 1700/1701?-1775) fully reflects the important stylistic developments that took place in Europe during the 18th century: from the Baroque style, through the gallant idioms and right up to the early days of classicism. His was an exceptional musical personality, which remained on the international musical scene for a good fifty years without ever yielding to the blandishments of fashion. Instead Sammartini continued to open out new paths for the younger contemporaries with whom he came into contact: Gluck, Boccherini, Mozart, etc. Though his name is associated above all with the origins of the symphony, the earliest examples of which date back to the 1730s, his output (both instrumental and vocal) was extremely varied and included some early essays in utterly new genres such as the quartet and quintet for strings. This volume assembles studies by all the major scholars who have hitherto devoted their attention to this composer, who has been viewed - both in the past and by modern musicologists - as a crucial link between different eras in the history of music. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jean-François Oeben, Mary Toft, Arnaud I de La Porte, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Mentewab, George Faulkner, Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc, Constantia Grierson, Marie Baptiste, Thomas Slade, George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, Stephen Duck, Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage, Betty Careless, Charles Howard, Attakullakulla, Thomas Burke, John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough, Stefano Pozzi, Giovanni Battista Pescetti, Rinaldo Di Capua, Matthew Blakiston, George Lee, John Stephenson, Lord Charles Cavendish, Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, Johann Christoph Glaubitz, Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, Alexander, Son of Jesse of Kartli, James Davis, Semion Chelyuskin, William Wynn, William Windham (Of Earsham, Junior), William Ashe-À Court, John Pettingall, Thomas Pelham, John Mordaunt, Sir William Morice, 3rd Baronet, Sebastian Bodinus, Jean-Baptiste Masse, Humphrey Butler, 1st Earl of Lanesborough, Seedo, Jan Wielopolski, Jacob Raphael Saraval, James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Giuseppe Peroni, Giovanni Antonio Medrano, Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet, King Hagler of the Catawba Indian Nation, Pietro Guarienti, Edward Nevill, 15th Baron Bergavenny, Carlo Grua, Edward Smith, Mikhail Kerzelli, Carlo Cozza, Poedua, Rocco Pozzi, Francesco Zugno, Purea, Camillo Camilli, Charles Maitland, Giuseppe Carcani. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 190. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Toft (née Denyer; c. 17011763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Toft became pregnant in 1726, but miscarried. Apparently fascinated by a rabbit she had seen while working, she claimed to have give...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=418082 ... Read more

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Piano part, 12 pp.; cello part, 5 pp. ... Read more