The rise of romantic opera

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This book was first published in hard covers in 1976 to mark the centenary of the birth of Edward J. Dent, now best remembered as translator of Mozart's opera libretti, as author of the best-known popular introductory book, Opera (Penguin) and for his book on Mozart's Operas (Oxford). He was a scholar of great range and wrote with style and wit. For many years he was professor of Music at Cambridge. Deriving from a course of previously unpublished lectures, the book concentrates on the crucial romantic period and shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is often thought, but in the music-dramas and operas of revolutionary France and that this music was a source of nineteenth-century German symphonic style as well as of grand opera. The book is edited by Winton Dean who supplied a brief introduction and a number of notes incorporating relevant scholarship. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:

Edward Joseph Dent, 1876-1957

Other Authors:

Winton Dean, 1916-2013

Document Type:

Books

Document range:

x, 198 stran ;

Published:

Cambridge ; New York ; New Rochelle ; Melbourne ; Sydney : Cambridge University Press, 1976

Edition:

First published

Subjects:

18.-19. století

dějiny opery > Evropa > 18.-19. století

romantismus (hudba) > Evropa

monografie

Physical Description:

x, 198 stran ; 23 cm

Bibliography:

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ISBN:

0-521-21337-1
0-521-29659-5