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This greatly enlarged edition includes many rewritten and updated entries as well as numerous new articles on composers and performers, details of casts at first performances, and much additional information on the development of opera in different countries. Comprehensive, compact, and inexpensive, this is an indispensable reference work for all opera enthusiasts.
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"an invaluable reference work" -- Gramophone
"the most authoritative single-volume work of its kind" -- Independent on Sunday
About the Author
John Warrack was University Lecturer in Music, and Fellow of St Hughes College, Oxford. He was Music Critic of the Sunday Telegraph, then director of the Leeds Music Festival. His books include Carl Maria von Weber, Tchaikovsky, and the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Die Meistersinger. He was awarded the degree of D.Litt by Oxford in 1989. Ewan West was Junior Research Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford from 1988 to 1992. He has been Lecturer in Music at
Worcester College and Director of Studies in Music at Somerville College. He is now a civil servant.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 019311321X
- ISBN 13 9780193113213
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages576
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