Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters - Hardcover
This is a collection of letters by Meyerbeer, the operatic composer who died in 1864. Critics have recently re-evaluated his work, recognizing his musical craftmanship, his dramatic sense and his influence on later operatic composers. His operas - "Il Crociato", "Robert le diable", "Les Huguenots", "Le Prophete" and "L'etoile du nord" - were extremely successful in Paris at the time of his death. However, the fashionable anti-semitism of the late 19th century meant that his reputation faded quickly. Heinz and Gudrun Becker, the editors of Meyerbeer's "Letters and Diaries", have selected representative letters from all periods of his life to provide a well balanced picture of the composer's personality and place in history.
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Text: English, German, French (translation)
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- PublisherA & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0747002304
- ISBN 13 9780747002307
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. First U.K. Hardback Edition. 240 x 165mm. pp. 215. English text. An impression of the life of Giacomo Meyerbeer through his letters. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original black boards. Housed in grey pictorial dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate to f.e.p and some foxing to top edge of pages. Boards clean. Foxing to inside surface of dust jacket (not visible externally). Exterior of dust jacket shows a few light bumps. Binding strong. No underlining. Not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # 037195
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