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Styling the biography of a major composer as a chronological series of original documents accompanied by ample commentaries, an idea pioneered in O.E. Deutsch's Documentary Biography of Handel (1955), has the advantage of revealing with clarity and accuracy the true foundations of our biographical knowledge of him. Micky White's new account of Antonio Vivaldi's life, which uses not only well-known documents but also ones newly discovered by her and other scholars, is the first such study of Vivaldi to adopt this method. It reveals the composer more clearly than ever in his musical, familial, religious and social settings, giving us greater insight into his personality and daily life. The author, who has lived in Venice for many years and devoted herself assiduously to the task of uncovering new archival information, besides checking, collating and evaluating the already known data, has produced an irreplaceable vade mecum for Vivaldians that will be an essential resource for a long time. The volume is accompanied by a free CD-ROM containing reproductions of the original documents.

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Micky White was born in Windsor, England, and has lived in Sri Lanka and Italy. She has been resident for several years in Venice, where she initiated a study of Antonio Vivaldi via the discovery of archival documents. She has collaborated in the preparation of several documentaries on the composer, both for the BBC and for foreign radio and television stations. Articles by her have appeared in musical journals and in the volume Vivaldi, `Montezuma' and the Opera Seria (Proceedings of an international conference, Rotterdam, 2005).

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