The name of violinist and conductor Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco does not necessarily spring to one's lips when significant figures of the late Baroque period are under consideration. To summarize, he was a contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi and the Veronese-born master of music attached to the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. As such, Dall'Abaco spent the first 11 years of his tenure in exile with the Elector in the Netherlands, and later, in France. This time spent in French-speaking lands could not help but ...
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The name of violinist and conductor Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco does not necessarily spring to one's lips when significant figures of the late Baroque period are under consideration. To summarize, he was a contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi and the Veronese-born master of music attached to the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. As such, Dall'Abaco spent the first 11 years of his tenure in exile with the Elector in the Netherlands, and later, in France. This time spent in French-speaking lands could not help but to impact Dall'Abaco's style, and while Dall'Abaco settled in with the Elector when he was finally restored to his rightful position in Munich in 1715, the music made at Maximilian's court remained resolutely French in character afterward. In terms of the formal construction of his music, Dall'Abaco is viewed as conservative in that he readily adopted the forms introduced by Arcangelo Corelli and seldom departed from them, though when he did so, the results are appealing and...
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