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Giovanni Battista Viotti correspondence
- Title
- Giovanni Battista Viotti correspondence, ca. 1793-ca. 1822.
- Author
- Viotti, Giovanni Battista, 1755-1824.
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- Additional Authors
- Broglie, Albertine Ida Gustavine de Staël-Holstein, duchesse de, 1797-1838.
- Chinnery, Caroline.
- Chinnery, William.
- Clementi, Muzio, 1752-1832.
- Dussek, Johann Ladislaus, 1760-1812.
- Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830.
- Paër, Ferdinando, 1771-1839.
- Pugnani, Gaetano, 1731-1798.
- Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.
- Description
- .16 cu. ft.
- 1 microfilm reel.
- Summary
- The collection consists of 3 undated letters and 12 dated letters from Viotti (1801-1821), all in French ; 20 undated and 34 dated letters (1793-1822) to Viotti and several others from various correspondents, chiefly in French with several letters in English or Italian. The earliest dated letter (1793) is from Pugnani. Muzio Clementi, Johann Dussek, and Ferdinando Pa̋er are represented by one letter each. Two unsigned notes are attributed to Mme. de Staël, and 2 unsigned letters, to Stéphanie Félicité Genlis, the author of La duchesse de La Vallière. One letter is signed "Albertine de Staël" (duchesse de Broglie). Several items in 1821 relate to Viotti's having been named Chevalier de l'Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur. Many letters are from and to the Chinnery family with little musical content. Viotti often signed letters "Amico" or "L'amico."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Letters (correspondence).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Microfilm;
- Source (note)
- freitaeng
- Biography (note)
- Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Viotti is best known for his Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor. Viotti spent much of his life after 1782 in Paris and London. He fled the French revolution in 1792, but was unwelcome in England as a suspected Jacobite between 1798-1801, after which he returned to London and remained there except for the years 1818-1822 in Paris. An early teacher and colleague in Italy was Gaetano Pugnani. His friends and patrons in London were the Chinnery family.
- Processing Action (note)
- Described
- Call Number
- *ZB-4141
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A296
- Author
- Viotti, Giovanni Battista, 1755-1824.
- Title
- Giovanni Battista Viotti correspondence, ca. 1793-ca. 1822.
- Additional Formats
- Microfilm; New York Public Library, call number: *ZB-4141.
- Biography
- Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Viotti is best known for his Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor. Viotti spent much of his life after 1782 in Paris and London. He fled the French revolution in 1792, but was unwelcome in England as a suspected Jacobite between 1798-1801, after which he returned to London and remained there except for the years 1818-1822 in Paris. An early teacher and colleague in Italy was Gaetano Pugnani. His friends and patrons in London were the Chinnery family.
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- Occupation
- Composers.
- Added Author
- Broglie, Albertine Ida Gustavine de Staël-Holstein, duchesse de, 1797-1838.Chinnery, Caroline.Chinnery, William.Clementi, Muzio, 1752-1832.Dussek, Johann Ladislaus, 1760-1812.Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830.Paër, Ferdinando, 1771-1839.Pugnani, Gaetano, 1731-1798.Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.
- Research Call Number
- *ZB-4141JOB 97-52