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Michael Talbot (musicologist)

Michael Owen Talbot, FBA (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British musicologist and composer.^[1][2]

Talbot is a former Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool.^[3] An expert in Italian baroque music,^[4] Talbot has authored monographsonAntonio Vivaldi and Tommaso Albinoni, and is an editor of the scholarly journal "Studi Vivaldiani". He is also active as a historicist composer, and a member of the "Vox Saeculorum" society.^[5]

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.^[6]

Works[edit]

• Antonio Vivaldi The Manchester Violin Sonatas(A-R Editions 1976) ISBN 0-89579-072-6
• 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)

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