Massenet / by James Harding.

Author/creator Harding, James
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, [1971, ©1970]
Description229 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

Contents Paris and the conservatoire ; Opera-pits and the pawnshop -- Rome ; Liszt ; First love -- Don Cesar ; The Furies ; Mary Magdalen ; Eve -- The king of Lahore ; Professor at the conservatoire ; The taste of glory -- Herodiade ; Scenes from Alsace ; Manon ; Le Cid -- A character in Maupassant ; The case of Sybil Sanderson ; Esclarmonde ; Le Mage ; Werther ; Le Carillon -- Thais ; Le portrait de Manon ; La Navarraise ; A call on Verdi ; Sapho -- A country home ; Cendrillon ; Charpentier ; La Terre promise ; Griselidis ; Messager ; Monte Carlo and le Jongleur de Notre-Dame -- Cigale ; Cherubin ; Ariane ; Lucy Arbell ; Therese -- Espada ; Bacchus ; Don Quichotte ; Amadis ; Panurge ; Cleopatre -- Memories ; Rome ; Curtain.
Abstract In this study, at once entertaining, sensitive and witty, the author pays over-due tribute to a master of the theatre and concert hall, while painting a glittering portrait of Paris during la Belle Epoque. Today Massenet's huge corpus of stage works and concert music is being rediscovered and re-evaluated by audiences who delight in his superb sense of theatre, his vitality and his command of both voice and orchestration. Interest is rising not only in the famous Manon and Werther, but also in the decadent grace of Thais, the mellow nobility of Don Quichotte and so many others. This perceptive and brilliant book reaffirms the qualities that made Massenet a master for his time and ours.
Bibliography note"The works of Massenet": pages 203-218.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 200-202) and index.
LCCN 70132189

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.M41 H4 1971 ✔ Available Place Hold