The Late Baroque Era: Vol 4. From The 1680s To 1740

Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological context. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Music and Society in the Late Baroque Era....Pages 1-38 Rome: the Power of Patronage....Pages 39-65 Venice in an Era of Political Decline....Pages 66-93 Naples: a City of Entertainment....Pages 94-128 Paris and Versailles....Pages 129-190 Hamburg and Lübeck....Pages 191-215 Dresden in the Age of Absolutism....Pages 216-229 Brandenburg-Prussia and the Central German Courts....Pages 230-253 Leipzig: a Cosmopolitan Trade Centre....Pages 254-295 Courts and Monasteries in Bavaria....Pages 296-323 Vienna under Joseph I and Charles VI....Pages 324-354 London: Commercial Wealth and Cultural Expansion....Pages 355-392 The Dutch Republic....Pages 393-410 The Iberian Peninsula....Pages 411-434 Warsaw, Moscow and St Petersburg....Pages 435-465 Back Matter....Pages 467-521