Daniel-François-Esprit Auber : Le Concert à la cour, ou La Débutante : Opéra-comique en un acte : Paroles de Eugène-Augustin Scribe et Mélesville / / edited and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822645503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-5755-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.944
• Soggetti: Composers - France - 19th century; Composers - France - 20th century; Music trade
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Overture; No.1; No.2; No.3; No.4; No.5; No.6; No.7; No.8
• Sommario/riassunto: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergère Châteleine, written at the age of 38, established him as an operatic composer. He then met the librettist Eugène Scribe (1791-1861), with whom he developed a long and illustrious working partnership that only ended with Scribe's death. Success followe...