Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians by Robert O Gjerdingen

Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

Robert O Gjerdingen

368 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history music dark informative reflective medium-paced
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In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the ...

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