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Moreschi : the last castrato / Nicholas Clapton.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.M665 C57 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clapton, Nicholas.
- Series:
- Life & times (London, England)
- Life & times
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moreschi, Alessandro, 1858-1922.
- Moreschi, Alessandro.
- Castrati--Italy--Biography.
- Castrati.
- Singers--Italy--Biography.
- Singers.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Haus, 2004.
- Summary:
- Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922), known during his life as 'The Angel of Rome', is remembered as the only castrato singer to have made recordings. Historically he was the last representative of the centuries-old tradition of castrating boy singers in order to preserve their high-pitched voices into adulthood - an act of cruelty which produced some of the greatest singers the world has ever known. Behind the extraordinary sound of Moreschi's voice lay a strange and lonely life lived in the shadow of great events and great institutions, a personality glimpsed by inference and allusion.
- Contents:
- Origins and Connections 1
- Beginnings 26
- Early Days in Rome 35
- The Cappella Musicale Pontificia 51
- Moreschi's early years at the Sistine Chapel 1883-1891 65
- The Years of the new Constitution 1891-1898 84
- Winds of Change 1898-1903 111
- A Long Twilight 125
- The Voice and the Legacy 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1904341772
- OCLC:
- 57642344
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