Ancora sui goûts réunis: Michele Mascitti, Giovanni Antonio Guido e l’eredità di Corelli e Vivaldi in Francia nella prima metà del Settecento

Abstract

The subject isthe reception of Italian instrumental music in France during the first decades of the eighteenth century. After examining the diffusion of music by Corelli and Vivaldi – the two Italian composers who exerted the most durable influence on the French at this time – through publication and performance, the music of Michele Mascitti and Antonio Guido is discussed in order to show the two authors’ contribution to the development of the sonata and the solo concerto.

Keywords

• eighteenth century
• violin sonata
• solo concerto
• italian influence
• music publishing
• musical performance
• patronage of music
• concert spirituel
• antonio vivaldi
• archangelo corelli
• michele mascitti
• antonio guido