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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Meyerbeer, Giacomo.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Composers--France--Biography.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

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...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON THE TEXT; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SELECTIVE INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-24066-1

9786613240668

1-4438-3072-0

OCLC:

748534185