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« on: December 01, 2012, 07:34:01 am »

I have interesting book Studies in music history presented to H.C. Robbins Landon. It is published in 1996.
http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Music-History-Presented-Seventieth/dp/0500016968

The first article is by Malcolm Boyd 'The music very good indeed': Scarlatti's Tolomeo et Alessandro recovered.

It is very interesting article to say the least. I am enjoying it very much now.

There is a lot of information about many historical figures  (Ottoboni, Ruspoli, Maria Casimira) and how operas were performed etc.

Domenico Scarlatti wrote four operas for Queen Maria Casimira's theatre. 

The first one was Tolomeo et Alessandro, overo La corona disprezzata and it was followed with a pastoral, L'Orlando in the printed lebretto of which Domenico Scarlatti si for the first time mentioned as  her maestro di cappella.


Not a note of L'Orlando survives, and until recently contemporary evaluations of Tolomeo et Alessandro could be tested only against the printed libretto and a manuscript copy of Act 1 which remains in priavate hands and is therefore virtually inaccessible. Now (since 1996) we are able to base an assessment of Scarlatti's  achievements in this work on a complete full score of the opera.

D. Scarlatti: Tolomeo ed Alessandro - Overture (Curtis)




This is a quote from the article. I hope it is ok with copyright. Belton House is situated a few miles north of Grantham in Lincolnshire. It was built in 1685-6 for Sir John Brownlow, third baronet of Belton, who  represented Grantham in parliament. After his death (apparently his by his own hand) in 1697, the house passed , along with the title, to his brother William  and then to William’s son, another Sir John Brownlow, who lived form 1690 to 1754. This Sir John also pursued a parliamentary career as member for Grantham, and later for Lincolnshire – a career which proved to be, in the words of the Belton House guide book ‘as long as it was undistinguished’. Sir John was, howere, keenly interested in art and literature and assembled an important collection  of books and pictures , including paintings by Guido Reni, Van Dyck and Luca Giordano. When the house and library were acquired by the National Trust  in 1984 it was discovered that he had also owned a manuscript copy of the three acts of Scarlatti’s Tolomeo et Alessandro.

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