Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua

by Don Harrd'an and Don Harrán

Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi has a
biography fraught with difficult and often exciting questions of socio-cultural order. How Rossi solved, or appears to have solved, the problem of conflicting interests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162715
• ISBN13: 9780198162711
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"