Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Once one of the most famous of all composers, his reputation declined amidst growing hostility. This Reader reflects his immense fame, the dismissal he faced, and the recent rediscovery and re-evaluation of his art.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Though Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde (1812), failed at its premiere, this score contains the seeds of his future greatness. It reveals his famed orchestral virtuosity and psychological exploration, pointing beyond Gluck toward Weber-Wagner.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This volume presents the pieces of music—from fragments to whole scenes—not used in the final performing edition of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine. These unused variants remain a crucial source for the history and future of this great opera.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast is based on an Arabian Nights tale. Championed by Weber for its delicate instrumentation, it shows astonishing maturity for a composer of twenty-one, using recurrent themes to present the plot’s conflict before Wagner.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
The result of years of research, this guide is an essential bibliographical aid for Giacomo Meyerbeer. It presents his papers, music, and correspondence alongside resources on his life, contemporaries, and historical context, from scores to modern recordings.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Beyond his famous operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote extensively for the voice in other genres. This volume presents the texts for his non-operatic stage works, occasional public pieces, sacred music, and songs, in the original and in English translation.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s cantatas were written for royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and praise famous men. His powers of lyric beauty and dramatic pomp are amply in evidence, revealing a forgotten side to the great operatic composer.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This collection reveals unknown non-operatic works by the great operatic master Meyerbeer. From a substantial cantata to celebratory marches and brief choruses, these manuscript scores were all written ‘by Royal Command’ for German Royal families.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
Giacomo Meyerbeer Orchestral Works
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a master of 19th-century opera, was renowned for impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power. This volume gathers his finest orchestral works, from famous opera ballets and marches to grand festive overtures waiting to be rediscovered.
Gift and Economy
Is a pure gift truly possible? The powerful forces of economy can corrupt every effort to give. This volume takes up Jacques Derrida’s challenge to investigate the gift, exploring an excess that cannot be explained by the calculus of exchange and power.
Giorgio Vasari
This book presents Giorgio Vasari as an intellectual and philosopher, exploring how he transformed the artist’s role in 16th-century Italy. Vasari elevated their status from mere artisans to divinely inspired creators whose work conveys profound moral and intellectual messages.
This book examines the historical and mythological themes in Giorgio Vasari’s Hall of the Elements paintings in the Palazzo Vecchio. It analyzes Vasari’s contribution to history painting, his use of classical Antiquity, and the intricate relationship between patron and artist.
Girlhood in British Coming-of-Age Novels
Šnircová discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature, drawing on the work of various feminist critics.
Giuseppe Tornatore
This authoritative study is a film-by-film analysis of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). It explores the powerful blend of emotion and intellect in his work, elucidating his critique of what our societies have become.
Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a pioneer of Italy’s ‘new school’ movement. In 1911, she created the Rinnovata Pizzigoni school, anticipating the comprehensive model. This book explores the evolution of her experimental method and its creative pedagogical development.
Giving Children a Voice
This collection of papers by international experts challenges society to note the seriousness of child abuse and the impact of technology on children. It raises questions on the rights of the child, and the role of parenthood in today’s contexts.
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