Germán Labrador López de Azcona
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View article: Luigi Boccherini’s Lost Music and a New Chronology for His Works An unknown inventory from 1785
Luigi Boccherini’s Lost Music and a New Chronology for His Works An unknown inventory from 1785 Open
The inventory of the music collection that belonged to Infante don Luis de Borbón, Luigi Boccherini’s employer between 1770 and 1785, offers a new insight into the composer’s oeuvre and the way he developed it; not only the chronology of m…
View article: The ideal of «Spanish Music» in Enlightenment Zarzuelas
The ideal of «Spanish Music» in Enlightenment Zarzuelas Open
Despite the novelty and even the reformist drive in the birth of zarzuela nueva in the mid 1760s, both the music and libretti of the new genre were alien to the «national tradition». In fact, the origins of the «zarzuela nueva» do not lie …