There's a great article on castrati/eunichs in a trade paperback by Panati
called something like "Extraordinary endings of practically everything and
everybody" which is a "bathroom reader" with lots of 5 minute articles.
If you can't find it or if you want me to post the gory details to the list,
I will.
Kate
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Zürcher [mailto:az@c...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: Countertenors/Castrati
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> Tako Oda wrote :
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> << It is true that countertenors had been almost completely
> eclipsed by the
> castrati between Handel -> Mozart. That was a relatively short period.>>
>
> Thank you for the answer, and for the quote in another post. You or the
> person you quoted (I don't remember) wrote that Monteverdi was
> the first to
> use castratti, while Gabrieli was happy with countertenors. Do you know
> where the idea of castratting children came from? Accident? Experiment?...
>
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