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0027-4380
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Although the northern German city of Hannover may seem an improbable place to look for sources on seventeenth-century Venetian opera, the Niedersächsische Hauptstaatsarchiv, nevertheless, holds a corpus of more than three hundred letters relating to the subject. Written by the Venetian secretary Francesco Maria Massi, the composer Antonio Sartorio, and the librettists Pietro Dolfin and Nicolò Beregan, the correspondence must be considered one of the most valuable collections of ephemera on Venetian musical life in the 1660s and 1670s. The four figures are linked to Hannover by their association with the German ruler Duke Johann Friedrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, one of Europe's most powerful absolutist monarchs of the time, and the complex nexus of Johann Friedrich's political, social, and cultural ties to La Serenissima created both the circumstances for the existence of the letters and their unique relevance to the world of Venetian opera.
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Notes, McLean, Va. : Music Library Assoc., 1943, 59(2003), 3, Seite 556-609, 0027-4380
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volume:59
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year:2003
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number:3
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pages:556-609
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