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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1840-1849
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Associated University Presse

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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 m
Meyerbeer Studies
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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"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 va
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864
Language: en
Pages: 732
Authors: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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 glossa
Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opéra-Comique, 1824-1856
Language: en
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Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-26 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is known all over the world for the famous Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chrétiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). However,
Grand Illusion
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Gabriela Cruz
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illuminati