Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107529026 ISBN 13: 9781107529021

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

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About the Authors

David Trippett is University Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, Wagner's Melodies (Cambridge, 2013), examines the cultural and scientific history of melodic theory in relation to Wagner's writings and music. He recently co-edited the Companion to Music in Digital Culture (Cambridge, forthcoming) and produced a critical reconstruction of Liszt's opera, Sardanapalo for the Neue Liszt Ausgabe, which he orchestrated for Schott.

Benjamin Walton is University Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. His monograph, Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge) was published in 2007, and a collection of essays entitled The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini (2013) was co-edited with Nicholas Mathew. From 2014–18 he was co-editor of Cambridge Opera Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107529026
• ISBN 13: 9781107529021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Trippett David