The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780838637890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780838637890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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.
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781611471854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. This last volume contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography of the composer, his contemporaries, and the operatic and social milieu of the times.
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher:
Published: 2002-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781611471847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 3 covers a time span that preeminently represents the period in the composerOs life known as OThe Years of International FameO (1850-56).
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780838640630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In 1936 Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots achieved its 1,120[superscript th] performance at the Paris Opera. This extraordinary record is an indication of the vast fame and influence of its composer who was once a household name, like Verdi or Puccini. Now he is unknown to the ordinary opera lover. These essays represent something of an odyssey to seek out and know the shadowy figure behind so much divided opinion and long neglect. They represent attempts, at various stages over thirty years, to find Meyerbeer and enter the world of his remarkable operatic creations that once so characterized the musical life of European civilization."--Jacket.
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9780838638453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism. It contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography.
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. The editors also edited Letters and Diaries of Meyerbeer.
Author: Marco Clemente Pellegrini
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 144380083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Guide has resulted from years of research on the papers and music of Giacomo Meyerbeer, and aims to provide a bibliographical aid and point of reference for further research. The first part presents the private papers connected to the composer and his principal librettist, Eugène Scribe—both archival and printed, with working papers and correspondence, as found in Berlin, Paris and some of the famous libraries of the world. The body of Part 2 draws together all the known resources on Meyerbeer's life and historical reputation—from full scale biographies and entries in reference books, through critical discussions to website resources to records of symposia. The third part provides material about his background with its unique mixture of Jewish and Prussian elements, the powerful role of the city of Berlin in his life and work. The fourth part lists bibliographic material for Meyerbeer's music, looking at his operas, grouped as German, Italian and French, with each individual entry providing a record of the scores available, both modern and historical, the various arrangements made from the operas during the heyday of their popularity, reviews of modern performances, discography, and bibliography of studies and publications pertinent to the wider cultural and historical contexts of the works. The next two sections constitute an extended record of material pertinent to the contemporaries of Meyerbeer. In the fifth section are select bibliographies of composers, authors, artists, performers, politicians, those who played some part in the composer's life, or anyone of significance in his wider contemporary circumstances. This is continued in the sixth part where the cultural and aesthetic elements of the composer's milieu, or life in the theatre during seventy years of the nineteenth century, are listed. The seventh part adds a bibliography of social and historical background, where the incidental issues of Judaism in nineteenth-century Europe, and the wider political, historical and geographical circumstances of Meyerbeer's life, his relentless travelling, and closely recorded experiences in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, England, and Austria. The eighth section provides a thematic key to this extensive material. Part 9 provides an extended tripartite series of lists of the published scores, arrangements and some special studies of Meyerbeer over the period 1820 to 2005—in alphabetical, chronological and thematic ordering. The last two sections furnish the modern equivalent of this record of Meyerbeer and his compositions, showing in Part 11 the list of performances of his operas since the Second World War, and in Part 12, listing the recordings of the operas, both commercial and private, for the same period. The thirteenth and last section is iconographical, pictures that represent an interesting survey of the popular response to Meyerbeer in the 19th century.