Genealogies of music and memory : Gluck in the nineteenth-century Parisian imagination / Mark Everist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everist, Mark, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Operas.

Gluck, Christoph Willibald.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. 'Genealogies of Music and Memory' asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments.

Contents:

Introduction. Gluck Reception and Cultural Exchange

Gluck in Performance, 1830-1870

Paris Imagines Gluck

Towards 'Rediscovery'

Gluck in the Theatre.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-754602-1

0-19-754603-X

0-19-754601-3