The Vivaldi Compendium

Comprising five sections – introduction, biography, dictionary, works and bibliography – this volume offers a thorough yet compact guide to one of the most popular of Baroque composers to emerge to fame somewhat belatedly, as a result of which a great deal of scholarship continues and uncovers new understanding about “the red priest” composer.

Michael Talbot’s credentials as a leading music professor in the UK with considerable research experience of the work of Vivaldi combine with his clear ability to distil facts pertaining to the composer and his milieu and make them accessible in dictionary format. This is always a...