Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Deliberately Forgotten Composer
Author: David Faiman
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Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789657023150
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Meyerbeer
Author: Arthur Hervey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9781330403211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Meyerbeer The name of Meyerbeer is deservedly one of the most famous in the annals of the opera, and the composer of Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots must be reckoned among the most striking musical personalities of his time. Few musicians have aroused so much enthusiasm, and few perhaps have been so harshly judged, yet whatever may have been his shortcomings, these were certainly more than redeemed by qualities which amply justified the unique position he occupied for so many years as the supreme master of opera. Richly endowed by nature, he had in addition the good fortune to be born of wealthy parents, and to be spared that struggle for existence which has, unfortunately, been the lot of so many musicians. If the fates were kind in providing him with a good start in fife, he certainly can be said to have made ample use of his opportunities. Wealthy as he was, he might have been content to live a life of idleness, instead of which he devoted himself heart and soul to the pursuit of his art. Giacomo Meyerbeer was born in Berlin on 21st September 1791. His name was originally Jacob Beer, and his father was a rich Jewish banker in the Prussian capital. The name Meyer, which he added to his own, was that of his maternal grandfather, who left him a legacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Meyerbeer's L'Africaine
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022-03-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1527581039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccupied them both since 1838, and it had become legendary as L’Africaine years before its completion. The first version of the opera became known as the Vecchia Africana of the long years of Meyerbeer’s anxious labours on this most troublesome of his operas An adoring public gave Meyerbeer a tumultuous posthumous accolade on the première of L'Africaine on 28 April 1865, a year after his death. This opera which involved Meyerbeer and Scribe’s creative energies for so long includes in one last and splendid achievement many of the elements that had hitherto featured in varying degrees in all their other joint creations. Both composer and librettist were men of immense imagination and genius. Between them, they created four works of great power and beauty that radically affected the history of opera. This study examines the origins and creation of the opera, its dramaturgy and musical style, the history of its astonishing reception around the world until the 1930s, its revival in more recent times. One of the special features of the book is the collection of iconography associated with the work, and its interpretation by many of the greatest singers of the Golden Age of opera. This imagery and many musical examples help to bring out the themes explored in this work more fully.
Meyerbeer's Italian Operas
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2023-10-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1527539113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three different and equally important eras of 19th century music. His works straddle the German Romantic school, Italian bel canto and French grand opera and opéra-comique. After his early career in Berlin, Darmstadt, Munich and Vienna, Meyerbeer famously travelled to Italy where he lived for ten years. His six operas written between 1817 and 1824 established Meyerbeer as a significant composer in Italy, with an international reputation growing more or less incrementally with each new work. The treasures of these works have been rediscovered in recent decades (1979-2019). This study examines these works in terms of origins, content and performance history.
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780838637890
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Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 1527527581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 ban on his music in Nazi Germany, meant that Meyerbeer’s reputation was seriously overshadowed in the years after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, a tentative interest began to manifest itself, and with the advent of the new millennium, a growing rediscovery of his operas has been apparent. Not least in this process has been the recovery of all the composer’s private papers and their scholarly editing. His life and work have been the subject of a growing number of informed studies which have enabled radical reassessment. This volume takes a fresh look at this process of rediscovery by considering the composer in terms of the primary sources (diaries and letters) now available for forming a more complete and detailed biography unclouded by prejudicial or uninformed opinions. The extraordinary nature of Meyerbeer’s Jewish background and the role of this family in Prussian emancipation are also considered. Most importantly, however, his life and works are presented in a critical chronology that is fundamentally based on his own private papers, with testimony (both positive and negative) from many contemporary sources. A detailed iconography is integral to this process, and helps to bring Meyerbeer's story and music more vividly to life.
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780838638446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 3 covers a time span that preeminently represents the period in the composer's life known as The Years of International Fame (1850-56). Confirmed as the major figure on the operatic scene, and freed from the more onerous duties of his official position, Meyerbeer was able to enjoy his most remarkable period of stability and renown, as the detailed and absorbing diary entries reveal. These years saw the composing, rehearsing, and staging of L'Etoile du Nord (1854), and his personal supervision of major productions in London, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Jennifer Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011-05-25
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1443830720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, whose music continued to be frequently performed worldwide into the following century. Today, recent scholars acknowledge his stature but his operas have become stage rarities. There is normally a gap on shelves in libraries and bookshops between Mendelssohn and Mozart (Messaien and Monteverdi for the better resourced). There is no biography or broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in print in English. This study of the vicissitudes of Meyerbeer’s reputation complements introductions to his works and the volumes of academic essays in English and other European languages. While reputation forming has recently offered several interesting studies, it is rare for a composer to be the subject. This volume will be of interest primarily to opera enthusiasts, and to libraries and musicologists worldwide.
The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1840-1849
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780838638439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 2 covers the 1840s, a period designated as the Prussian Years. From 1846 Meyerbeer's journal becomes a consistent daily record, resulting in one of the most sustained depictions of a contemporary artistic, theatrical, and musical milieu ever kept by a famous composer. Illustrated.
