Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua

ISBN-13: 9780198162711 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 332 str.

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Opis

Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a biography fraught with difficult and often exciting questions of socio-cultural order. How Rossi solved, or appears to have solved, the problem of conflicting interests is a subject worthy of inquiry, not only because we want to know more about Rossi, but also because Rossi can stand as a paradigm for other Jewish figures who, contemporary with him, moved between different cultures.

Recenzje

Harran's book is a musicological masterpiece. The book is written with a proficiency [dexterity, skills, abilities] that can only awaken envy, in a rich language and with exceptional exactitude. It is accompanied by a rich bibliography and an inclusive listing of Rossi's works. For all that, there is not a trace of mere pedantry in it. On the contrary, its discussions are conducted with an end to broadening knowledge and against the background of the rich cultural agenda of both Italian Renaissance and Jewish culture.

O autorze

Don Harran is Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In October 1999, he was awarded the Landau Prize for 1999.