1st Edition

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London

By Cheryll Duncan Copyright 2020
136 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini’s influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario. The crux of the study is a detailed account of Giardini’s partnership with the music seller/publisher John Cox during the 1750s, presented using new... Read more

Contents





 





Introduction





1 The documents





2 Biographies





3 Early collaborations



 





4 Cox and Giardini in court





5 Giardini’s account at Cox’s music shop



Conclusion





Appendices

Biography

Cheryll Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. Her primary research interests concern music culture in Britain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on records of the equity and common-law courts. She has published articles in Cambridge Opera Journal, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Opera Journal, and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, and has contributed a chapter to Geminiani Studies, ed. Christopher Hogwood.