THE VIOLIN CONCERTOS, OPP. 2 AND 3, BY MADDALENA LAURA LOMBARDINI-SIRMEN (c.1735-c.1799)
THE VIOLIN CONCERTOS, OPP. 2 AND 3, BY MADDALENA LAURA LOMBARDINI-SIRMEN (c.1735-c.1799)
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1979
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Berdes, Jane Louise Baldauf
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Helm, E. Eugene
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Abstract
The 18th-century Venetian Maddalena Laura Lombardini-Sirmen
had a complex international career as a protegee of
Giuseppe Tartini, violin virtuosa, opera singer, and composer, yet original documents providing information about her are almost nil. This thesis assembles information about
the life and works of this gifted woman musician and also
provides a bibliographic study and analysis of her best known
works: a set of six violin concertos (Opp . 2 and 3),
Some 30 individual prints by three publishers--Dutch, French,
and English--and 12 manuscripts have been located in 20 libraries
of eight nations for these concertos, A discussion
of Lombardini-Sirmen's style characteristics takes place
within the context of concerto composition in the Lombardia-Venetia
region of Tartini's influence and in that of the
broader, European , pre-Haydn-and-Mozart sphere of influence,
The discussion concludes that Lombardini-Sirmen's concertos
belong to the high classical style period,
In the Appendixes are a copy of Tartini's historic pedagogical "Letter" addressed to Lombardini-Sirmen (in an English translation by Charles Burney); a thematic index of the complete
works by the composer and her husband, Lodovico Sirmen,
A copy of the keyboard transcription of t he concertos, done by
Tommaso Giordani and published in London circa 1773, is
separately bound.