TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robin Burgess
PY  - 2022
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781800795068
TI  - FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI
T2  - AN ESSAY ON THE OPERA (Saggio sopra l’opera in musica) The editions of 1755 and 1763
DO  - 10.3726/b18428
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1149188
N2  - This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the eighteenth century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style. The Essay in its original Italian had considerable influence on the reform opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck.
KW  - Baroque to classical, Opera, music drama, Francesco Algarotti: An Essay on the Opera, Robin Burgess
LA  - English
ER  -