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Le mariage d'Antonio / Lucile Grétry ; edited by Robert Adelson.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Grétry, Lucile, 1772-1790, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era ; 77.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era ; 77
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--France--18th century--Scores.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxxv, 109 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Language Note:
- French words; also printed as text with English translation on pages xviii-xxxv.
- Summary:
- "Lucile Grétry's Le Mariage d'Antonio (1786) was one of the most important works in what became an efflorescence of French opera by women that began around 1770, reached its peak during the revolutionary decade, and finally subsided around 1820. This phenomenon of opera by women was as astonishing at the time as it is in retrospect. No arena in eighteenth-century French culture was more public than opera; it was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and eruptions of invective in print - some of which became major aesthetic querelles. It is therefore all the more surprising to discover that one of the most acclaimed women composers of the 1780s was Lucile Grétry (1772-90), the teenage daughter of one of the most celebrated opera composers in Paris, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813). Le Mariage d'Antonio was well received in its time, with forty-seven performances at the Comédie-Italienne between 1786 and 1791." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Opera.
- Libretto by Mme. de Beaunoir (Alexandre-Louis Robineau).
- Based on the 1st ed. of the score (Paris : Houbaut, 1786) and orchestral parts preserved in the Nederlands Muziek-Instituut, The Hague (Paris : Houbaut, n.d.).
- Includes preface and critical commentary.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed May 16, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1103570438
- Publisher Number:
- C077 A-R Editions, Inc.
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