| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 475 pages, 229 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps) |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; 1) The Meyerbeer Papers [Nachlass]; 2) The Diaries; 3) The Style and Content; 4) Words and Music; 5) The Operatic Emphasis; 6) Non-Dramatic Music; 7) Musicians and Singers; 8) Literary Concerns; 9) Musical Criticism; 10) The Press; 11) Negative Reputation; 12) Anti-Semitism; 13) Religion and Attitude; 14) Historical Questions; 15) A Life of Wandering; 16) Questions of Health; 17) Family Matters; 18) Friendship; Chapter Two; A. The Jews in Prussia; 1) Brandenburg and the Grand Elector |
|
2) The Jews in Europe and in BerlinB. The Family of Giacomo Meyerbeer; 1) Jost Liebmann-Court Jew to the Hohenzollerns; 2) Jakob Herz Beer; 3) Liebmann Meyer Wulff; 4) Amalia Beer; 5) The Portraits; 6) Aron Halle Wolfssohn; 7) The Portrait of Meyer Beer as a Boy; 8) Wilhelm Beer; 9) Heinrich Beer -- Meyerbeer's Forgotten Brother; 10) Michael Beer; Chapter Three; 1. The Early Years (1791-1815); 1791-1809 Berlin; 1810-1811 Darmstadt; 1812 Munich; 1813-1814 Vienna; 1815 Paris, London; Meyerbeer and the Pianists of his Day (1812-32); 2. Meyerbeer in Italy (1816-1826); 1816; 1817; 1818; 1819 |
|
1820-18211822; 1823; 1824; Il Crociato in Egitto; 1825; 1826; 3. Meyerbeer in Paris (1827-1840); 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; Robert le Diable; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; Les Huguenots; 1837; 1838; 1839; 1840; 4. Meyerbeer in Berlin (1841-1847); 1841; 1842 New Influences in Prussia; 1843 Generalmusikdirektor; 1844; Ein Feldlager in Schlesien; 1845; 1846; 1847; 5. Meyerbeer in Austria and Paris (1847-1851); 1848; The Year of Revolution; Bad Gastein and Bad Ischl; Paris; 1849; Le Prophète; 1850; The Consolidation of Success; 6. Meyerbeer in Berlin Again (1851-1853); 1851; 1852; 1853 |
|
7. Meyerbeer and the Opéra Comique (1854-1859)1854; L'Étoile du Nord; 1855; 1856; The Return to Italy; 1857 Paris and Nice; 1858; 1859; Le Pardon de Ploërmel; 8. Meyerbeer Back in Berlin (1860-1862); 1860; 1861; 1862; The Last Visit to London; 9. Meyerbeer's Last Return to Paris (1863-1864); 1863; 1864; Vasco de Gama/L'Africaine; Bibliography; Index; 1. General Index; 2. Index of Artists, Engravers, Lithographers and Photographers; 3. Index of Biographers, Scholars and Critics; 1) The Sources; 2) The Background; 3) The Life |
| Summary |
Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of nationalism and the growing ant-Semitism in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, the propagation of a Wagnerian operatic aesthetic, the decline of the bel canto vocal tradition, and the disfavour manifested towards the heroism of French grand opera. All these factors, and especially the b |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
|
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 5, 2019) |
| Subject |
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 -- Diaries
|
| SUBJECT |
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 fast |
| Subject |
Jewish composers -- Germany -- Correspondence
|
|
Jewish composers -- Germany -- Biography
|
|
Opera -- History -- 19th century
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
|
|
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
|
|
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
|
|
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
|
|
Jewish composers
|
|
Opera
|
|
Germany
|
| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
|
|
Biographies
|
|
Diaries
|
|
History
|
|
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781527527584 |
|
1527527581 |
|
