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Title: Tedious
Review: Very dry. Endless minutiae. Found myself scanning and skipping paragraphs in search of the life of Vivaldi.There is very little effort made to place this artist within the context of his times. The chapter on Vivaldi's church musicreads like an inventory list, and the chapter on the production of Vivaldi's operas in Ferrara is a collection of petty, verbose, litigious letters.This book may be valuable to some scholars, but for those of us looking for a readable biography, it wasextremely unrewarding.
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