Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

ISBN:

9781443830720

9781283240666

Title:

Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

Author:

Jackson, Jennifer.

Personal Author:

Jackson, Jennifer.

Publication Information:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)

Contents:

Foundations : the young virtuoso and composer -- The genius of the spree : Meyerbeer's Italian operas -- Anxious genius : the first Parisian successes -- The greatest music dramatist : Berlin and Paris -- Purification -- Degeneration -- Under restoration -- Appendix -- Conclusions.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864-Criticism and interpretation.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864. (OCoLC)fst00046785

Subject Term:

Composers -- France -- Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.

MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.

MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Opera & Classical Scores.

Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620

Geographic Term:

France. (OCoLC)fst01204289

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=523512

Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

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Summary

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris. whose music continued to be frequently performed worldwide until the twentieth. Today, recent scholars acknowledge his stature but his operas have become stage rarities. There is normally a gap is on shelves in libraries and bookshops between Mendelssohn and Mozart (Messaien and Monteverdi for the better resourced). There is no biography or broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in print in Engl...