Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue
Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue
This chapter explores Luigi Boccherini's virtuosity as it manifests in his solo sonatas. It explains that in certain sonatas, Boccherini distanced and ironized the performer in specific regard to his virtuosity, thereby making a sophisticated contribution to the Enlightenment dialogue between self and appearance. It also analyzes why virtuosity is so often and so roundly dismissed by critics both of Boccherini's age and of ours.
Keywords: Luigi Boccherini, virtuosity, solo sonatas, Enlightenment, self
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