Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... LAS VIRGENES DE VIVALDI (2007)por Barbara Quick
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. En la Venecia del siglo xviii, el Ospedale della Pietà es un hospital-convento que acoge a las numerosas niñas huérfanas abandonadas por sus madres. Las niñas residentes reciben una exquisita educación musical de la mano del maestro Antonio Vivaldi. La formidable complicidad establecida por el autor de Las Cuatro Estaciones con estas vírgenes da como resultado unas voces angelicales que encandilan a toda Venecia. Una de ellas es la de Anna Maria dal Violin. Desde muy joven, le ha escrito cartas a esa madre desconocida a la que tanto anhela conocer algún día. @ Venice — foundling home — where "Red Priest" Vivaldi trains musicians in Coro (choir) Jewish ghetto — spectacle of music Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria Dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the "Red Priest," Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna Maria embarks on a journey of self-discovery that carries her into a wondrous and haunting world of music and spectacle, bringing eighteenth-century Venice magically to life. Vivaldi’s Virgins –Barbara Quick 3/5 stars….. maybe 4 stars This is historical fiction about the eloborate Venetian society of the 1700’s. The story is told by Anna Maria da Violin who is an inmate of the Ospedale della Pieta . The Ospedale is a combination of foundling home, music academy and cloister. It is an extremely structured community with rigid rules and its own class structure based in some part upon musical talent. The narrative of the story jumps back and forth between the letters written by Anna as a teenager and her adult self looking back over the events that formed her life. Vivaldi is known to have taught and composed for the musicians of the Ospedale. Anna is an actual historical figure who was known for her great ability as a musician. Vivaldi wrote many compositions for her. The book jacket compared this story to The Girl with the Pearl Earring. I was reminded of Memoirs of a Geisha. It is a fascinating look at how a woman was able to achieve greatness in her chosen field despite the multiple restrictions paced upon her. I would have liked more detailed descriptions of the workings of Venetian Society since I am not familiar with the period and its history. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Distinciones
In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi--known as the Red Priest of Venice--is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Piet#65533; as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |