The rise of romantic opera / Edward J. Dent ; edited by Winton Dean.

Author/creator Dent, Edward J.
Other author Dean, Winton, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Descriptionx, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Opera.

Contents Introduction -- The conventions of opera -- The heritage of Gluck -- The school of Paris, I -- The school of Paris, II -- The school of Paris, III -- Spontini -- Rossini -- Beethoven and Schubert -- Weber and his contemporaries -- Bellini -- Conclusion.
Abstract This book was first published in hardcover 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 Deriving from a course of previously unpublished lectures, the book concentrates on the crucial romantic period and shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is often thought, but in the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.
General noteLectures originally delivered at Cornell University, 1937-8.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 76014029
ISBN0521213371
ISBN9780521296595

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