Donizetti And Bellini
Sigismondi, the librarian of the Neapolitan Conservatory, had a horror of Rossini's music, and took care that all his printed works in the library should be placed beyond the reach of the young and innocent pupils. He was determined to preserve th... French Opera From Lulli To The Death Of Rameau
Ramists and Lullists.--Rameau's Letters of nobility.--His death.--Affairs of honour and love.--Sophie Arnould.--Madame Favart.--Charles Edward at the Académie. Lulli died in Paris, March 22nd, 1687, at the age of fifty-four. In... General View Of The Opera In Europe In The Eighteenth Century Until The Appearance Of Gluck
Great Italian Singers.--Ferri in Sweden.--Opera in Vienna.--Scenic decorations.--Singers of the Eighteenth Century.--Singers' nicknames.--Farinelli's one note. [Sidenote: QUEEN CHRISTINA AND FERRI.] Handel, by his great musical... Gluck And Piccinni In Paris
Gluck at Vienna.--Iphigenia in Aulis.--A rehearsal at Sophie Arnould's.--Gluck and Vestris.--Piccinni in Italy.--Piccinni in Paris.--The two Iphigenias.--Iphigenia in Champagne.--Madeleine Guimard, Vestris, and the Ballet. F... Introduction And Progress Of The Ballet
The Ballets of Versailles.--Louis XIV. astonished at his own importance.--Louis retires from the stage; congratulations addressed to him on the subject; he re-appears.--Privileges of Opera dancers and singers.--Manners and custom... Introduction Of Italian Opera Into England
Operatic Feuds.--Objections to Nose-pulling.--Arsinoe.--Camilla and the Boar.--Steele on insanity.--Handel and Clayton.--Nicolini and the lion.--Rinaldo and the sparrows.--Hamlet set to music.--Three enraged musicians.--Three cha... Introduction Of The Opera Into France And England
French Opera not founded by Lulli.--Lulli's elevation from the kitchen to the orchestra.--Lulli, M. de Pourceaugnac, and Louis XIV.--Buffoonery rewarded.--A disreputable tenor.--Virtuous precaution of a prima donna.--Orth... Manners And Customs At The London Opera Half A Century Since
[Sidenote: A MANAGER IN THE BENCH.] A complete History of the Opera would include a history of operatic music, a history of operatic dancing, a history of the chief operatic theatres, and a history of operatic society. I have made no attempt to ... On The Nature Of The Opera And Its Merits As Compared With Other Forms Of The Drama
Opera admired for its unintelligibility.--The use of words in opera.--An inquisitive amateur.--New version of a chorus in Robert le Diable.--Strange readings of the Credo by two chapel masters.--Dramatic situations and effects pe... Opera In France After The Departure Of Gluck
A few months before Gluck left Paris for the last time, an insurrection broke out at the Opera. The revolutionary spirit was abroad in Paris. The success of the American War of Independence, the tumultuous meetings of the French Parliament, the in... Opera In France Under The Consulate Empire And Restoration
The History of the Opera, under the Consulate and the Empire, is perhaps more remarkable in connexion with political than with musical events. Few persons at present know much of Spontini's operas, though la Vestale in its day was celebrated in Pa... Opera In Italy Germany And Russia During And In Connection With The Republican And Napoleonic Wars
PAISIELLO, PAER, CIMAROSA, MOZART. THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. DON GIOVANNI. Nothing shows better the effect on art of the long continental wars at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century than the fact that Mozart's two gre... Rossini And His Period
[Sidenote: ROSSINI.] Innovators in art, whether corrupters or improvers, are always sure to meet with opposition from a certain number of persons who have formed their tastes in some particular style which has long been a source of delight to t... Rossini Spohr Beethoven Weber And Hoffmann
[Sidenote: ROSSINI.] Bellini and Donizetti were contemporaries of Rossini; so were Paisiello and Cimarosa; so are M. Verdi and M. Meyerbeer; but Rossini has outlived most of them, and will certainly outlive them all. It is now forty-eight years... Rousseau As A Critic And As A Composer Of Music
The Musical Dictionary.--Account of the French Opera from the Nouvelle Héloise.--Le devin du Village.--Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Granet of Lyons. Rousseau, a man of a decidedly musical organisation, who, during his residence i...

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