
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
The sonatas and concertos of Arcangelo Corelli have long been central to our understanding of seventeen-century music. However, no attempt has thus far been made to explain Corelli’s poetics of violin music and relate it, on the one hand, to the institutional settings in which he worked, and on the other, to the aesthetic aims nurtured within his cultural milieu.