TY  - BOOK
AU  - Letellier,Robert Ignatius
TI  - Giacomo Meyerbeer: a critical life and iconography 
SN  - 9781527527584
AV  - ML410.M61 L38 2018eb
U1  - 782.1092 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Meyerbeer, Giacomo,
KW  - Jewish composers
KW  - Germany
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Biography
KW  - Opera
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Compositeurs juifs
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Correspondance
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Composers & Musicians
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Instruction & Study
KW  - Voice
KW  - Lyrics
KW  - Printed Music
KW  - Vocal
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal correspondence
KW  - Diaries
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK)
N2  - 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
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