Huub van der Linden: A Bio-bibliographical Approach to the Circulation of Italian Oratorio around 1700:

The Case of Francesco Pistocchi and Il martirio di san Adriano

 

In contrast to opera seria, the study of the circulation and revision of the music and librettos of the Italian oratorio in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe is meager. An examination of the life of singer and composer Francesco Antonio Pistocchi and the circulation of his oratorio Il martirio di san Adriano provides an argument for the inclusion of work-centered, bio-bibliographical scholarship, alongside research on geographical centers, in the field of music circulation.

 

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