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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811770303321

Titolo

The collected writings of Franz Liszt . Volume 3, Part 1 Dramaturgical leaves: essays about musical works for the stage and queries about the stage, its composers, and performers / / edited and translated by Janita R. Hall-Swadley ; foreword by Cornelia Szabó-Knotik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8108-8330-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Hall-SwadleyJanita R

Szabo-KnotikCornelia

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF FRANZ LISZT ; Contents ; Expanded Contents Based on the 1880/83 Gesammelte Schriften ; List of Figures ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Liszt as Patron ; Hermaphroditic Operas: Gender Obscured for the Sake of a National Identity ; Entr'acte Music in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Perspective ; Translator's Notes ; The Writings ; 1 Orpheus by Gluck (1854) ; 2 Beethoven's Fidelio (1854) ; 3 Weber's Euryanthe (1854) ; 4 About Beethoven's Music to Egmont (1854) ; 5 About Mendelssohn's Music to Midsummer Night's Dream (1854)

6 Scribe and Meyerbeer's Robert the Devil (1854) 7 Schubert's Alfonso and Estrella (1854) ; 8 The Mute from Portici by Auber (1854) ; 9 Bellini's Montague and Capulet (1854) ; 10 Boieldieu's White Lady (1854) ; 11 Donizetti's The Favorite (1854) ; 12 Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1859) ; 13 No Entr'acte Music! (1855)  ; 14 On the Occasion of Mozart's Centennial Celebration in Vienna (1856) ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Editor/Translator

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and



Performers</span><span>, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley's </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt</span><span>, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Orpheus</span><span>, expounds on Beethove