The international library of music for home and studio : music literature. / containing chapters by Moritz Moszkowski, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Cecile Chaminade, Charles Gounod, Victor Maurel, Jules Massenet, and others.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : The University Society, Inc., 1962. |
| Copyright Date | ©1948 |
| Description | approximately 324 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, music ; 29 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Moszkowski, Moritz, 1854-1925, author. |
| Other author/creator | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919 author. |
| Other author/creator | Chaminade, Cécile, 1857-1944, author. |
| Other author/creator | Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 author. |
| Other author/creator | Maurel, Victor, 1848-1923, author. |
| Other author/creator | Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912, author. |
| Other author/creator | Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918 author. |
| Other author/creator | Newman, Ernest, 1868-1959, author. |
| Other author/creator | Boekelman, Bernardus, 1838-1930, author. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Fanny Morris, author. |
| Other author/creator | Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920, author. |
| Other author/creator | University Society (U.S.) |
| Contents | The origin and development of opera -- Stories of the operas -- Phases of operatic history. English opera from the eighteenth to the present century -- Slavonic opera -- Opera today in Italy, Germany, and France -- The chief opera houses of the world -- Operatic composers. Wagner's personality / Gustave Kobbé -- Jean Baptiste Lulli -- François Adrien Boieldieu -- Gaetano Donizetti -- Christoph Willibald Gluck / Ernest Newman -- Giacomo Meyerbeer / Moritz Moszkowski -- Meyerbeer's Brandus correspondence -- Gioacchino Rossini / Bernard Boekelman -- Rossini between Gluck and Wagner / Victor Maurel -- Vincenzo Bellini / Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Gounod in Italy and Germany / Charles François Gounod -- The philosophy of Gounod / Fanny Morris Smith -- Georges Bizet / Cécille Chaminade -- Giuseppe Verdi / F. A. Schwab -- Autobiographical notes by the composer Massenet / J. Massenet -- Michael William Balfe -- Félicien César David -- Jacques Offenbach -- Great vocalists. From the beginnings of opera to Catalani -- Angelica Catalani -- Luigi Lablache -- Giovanni Battista Rubini -- Giuditta Pasta -- Henriette Sontag -- Mario -- Maria Felicita Malibran -- Giulia Grisi -- Jenny Lind -- Seven artists of the recent past -- Stars of modern opera -- Special articles. Woman in music / Louis C. Elson -- Children in music / Louis C. Elson. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 49005948 |