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Don Harrán. Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. Oxford Monographs on Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2002

Joshua R. Jacobson
Affiliation:
Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts
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Salamone Rossi (c. 1570–c. 1630) is a fascinating but enigmatic figure. The man who epitomizes the Jewish participation in the Italian Renaissance left only a few meager footprints in history. We know of Rossi only from his thirteen surviving publications and from the appearance of his name in the Mantuan archives. He was all but forgotten until 1876, when Samuel Naumbourg, Chief Cantor of Paris, published a modern edition of fifty-two of Rossi's compositions. For yet another hundred years Rossi would remain for the most part hidden in the shadows. Not until the past four decades has Rossi's music been extensively and seriously published, performed, recorded, and studied.

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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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