Carteggio musicale di Carlo Gervasoni con diversi suoi amici, professori e maestri di capella - Gervasoni, Carlo 1762-1819; Fortunati, Gian Francesco 1746-1821; Canetti, Francesco 1784-1812 (Milan Agnelli, 1804)
Carlo Gervasoni was an Italian organist, violinist and composer, as well as a harpsichordist, philosopher and music theorist who is best known for his treatises 'La scuola della musica' (1800; see 08B22) and 'Nuova teoria di musica ricavata dall'odierna pratica' (1812; see 04G21), the second of which helped lay the foundations for sonata form theory.
The letters are dated between 7 September 1800 and 20 February 1804. They are addressed to Gian Francesco Fortunati, a composer of opera buffe, Francesco Canetti, the kapellmeister of the Duomo Nuovo of Brescia, and Anselmo Marsand, a Benedictine monk. The last letter offers an interesting autobiography of the author.
Bound in with Gervasoni's 'Esempi della Scuola della musica'
Also originally published in 1804
in cui si dimostra l'utilità della scuola della musica, si propongono e si sciolgono alcuni dubbj alla medesima scuola relativi, e si danno varj avvertimenti utilissimi ai professori e dilettanti di quest' arte
Keywords: Duomo Nuovo (Brescia, Italy); 19th Century (1801-1900); Organist; Violinist; Composer; Correspondence; Biography; Music theory; Fugue; Cantus firmus; Milan (Italy); Gervasoni, C._portret