Michael Owen Talbot, (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. Talbot is a former Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. An expert in Italian

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

music, Talbot has authored

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s on

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...

and

Tommaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera co ...

, and is an editor of the scholarly journal "Studi Vivaldiani". He is also active as a

historicist Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying the process or history by which they came about. The term is widely used in philosophy, ant ...

, and a member of the "

Vox Saeculorum ''Vox Sæculorum'' is an international society of contemporary composers writing in the Baroque style established in 2006. Vox Sæculorum was the primary focus of a feature-length article on period baroque composition written by Grant Colburn and pu ...

" society. Talbot's expertise has been called upon in instances where the authenticity and/or provenance of works has been questioned, including the discovery of the possible Vivaldi work ''Andromeda Liberata''.

Works

* Antonio Vivaldi The Manchester Violin Sonatas(A-R Editions 1976) * Vivaldi's 'Manchester' Sonatas(Cambridge University Press 1977)　 * Vivaldi (London 1978, revised 1984 , 1993); German Antonio Vivaldi: The Venetian and Baroque Europe. Life and work (Stuttgart 1985, Frankfurt am Main 1998) * Vivaldi (London 1979) * Albinoni. Life and work (Adliswil / CH 1980) * Antonio Vivaldi: A Guide to Research (New York 1988) * Tomaso Albinoni: The Venetian Composer and His World (Oxford 1990, revised 1994) * Benedetto Vinaccesi: A Musician in Brescia and Venice in the Age of Corelli (Oxford 1994) * The Sacred Vocal Music of Antonio Vivaldi (Florence 1995) * Venetian Music in the Age of Vivaldi (Aldershot 1999) * The Musical Work: Reality or Invention? (Liverpool University Press 2000) * The Finale in Western Instrumental Music (Oxford 2001) * The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi (Woodbridge 2006) * Vivaldi and Fugue (Florence 2009) * The Vivaldi Compendium (Woodbridge 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot, Michael 1943 births 21st-century British classical composers English classical composers Living people Historicist composers English male classical composers 21st-century British male musicians Vivaldi scholars