The Rise of Romantic Opera

Edward J. Dent

ISBN 10: 0521213371 / ISBN 13: 9780521213370

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1976

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Synopsis:

This book was first published in hard covers in 1976 to mark the centenary of the birth of Edward J. Dent, now best remembered as translator of Mozart's opera libretti, as author of the best-known popular introductory book, Opera (Penguin) and for his book on Mozart's Operas (Oxford). He was a scholar of great range and wrote with style and wit. For many years he was professor of Music at Cambridge. Deriving from a course of previously unpublished lectures, the book concentrates on the crucial romantic period and shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is often thought, but in the music-dramas and operas of revolutionary France and that this music was a source of nineteenth-century German symphonic style as well as of grand opera. The book is edited by Winton Dean who supplied a brief introduction and a number of notes incorporating relevant scholarship.

Book Description: This book was first published in hard covers in 1976 to mark the centenary of the birth of Edward J. Dent and concentrates on the crucial romantic period and shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is often thought, but in the music-dramas and operas of revolutionary France.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Rise of Romantic Opera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket