Giacomo Meyerbeer : a critical life and iconography /

Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of national...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Letellier, Robert Ignatius (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ii 4500
001 in00005988601
006 m o d
007 cr |||||||||||
008 190205s2018 enkabf ob 001 0beng d
005 20240625151108.9
015 |a GBB931726  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 019248842  |2 Uk 
019 |a 1084793099  |a 1088905949 
020 |a 9781527527584  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 1527527581  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9781527503960 
020 |z 1527503968 
035 |a 1WRLDSHRon1084474617 
035 |a (OCoLC)1084474617  |z (OCoLC)1084793099  |z (OCoLC)1088905949 
037 |a 9781527527584  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing 
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c N$T  |d N$T  |d YDX  |d EBLCP  |d UKMGB  |d OCL  |d OCLCQ  |d ELBRO 
043 |a e-gx--- 
049 |a TXMM 
050 4 |a ML410.M61  |b L38 2018eb 
082 0 4 |a 782.1092  |2 23 
100 1 |a Letellier, Robert Ignatius,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Giacomo Meyerbeer :  |b a critical life and iconography /  |c by Robert Ignatius Letellier. 
264 1 |a Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  |c 2018. 
264 4 |c ©2018 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxvii, 475 pages, 229 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations (some color), maps) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 5, 2019). 
505 0 |a Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; 1) The Meyerbeer Papers [Nachlass]; 2) The Diaries; 3) The Style and Content; 4) Words and Music; 5) The Operatic Emphasis; 6) Non-Dramatic Music; 7) Musicians and Singers; 8) Literary Concerns; 9) Musical Criticism; 10) The Press; 11) Negative Reputation; 12) Anti-Semitism; 13) Religion and Attitude; 14) Historical Questions; 15) A Life of Wandering; 16) Questions of Health; 17) Family Matters; 18) Friendship; Chapter Two; A. The Jews in Prussia; 1) Brandenburg and the Grand Elector 
505 8 |a 2) The Jews in Europe and in BerlinB. The Family of Giacomo Meyerbeer; 1) Jost Liebmann-Court Jew to the Hohenzollerns; 2) Jakob Herz Beer; 3) Liebmann Meyer Wulff; 4) Amalia Beer; 5) The Portraits; 6) Aron Halle Wolfssohn; 7) The Portrait of Meyer Beer as a Boy; 8) Wilhelm Beer; 9) Heinrich Beer -- Meyerbeer's Forgotten Brother; 10) Michael Beer; Chapter Three; 1. The Early Years (1791-1815); 1791-1809 Berlin; 1810-1811 Darmstadt; 1812 Munich; 1813-1814 Vienna; 1815 Paris, London; Meyerbeer and the Pianists of his Day (1812-32); 2. Meyerbeer in Italy (1816-1826); 1816; 1817; 1818; 1819 
505 8 |a 1820-18211822; 1823; 1824; Il Crociato in Egitto; 1825; 1826; 3. Meyerbeer in Paris (1827-1840); 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; Robert le Diable; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; Les Huguenots; 1837; 1838; 1839; 1840; 4. Meyerbeer in Berlin (1841-1847); 1841; 1842 New Influences in Prussia; 1843 Generalmusikdirektor; 1844; Ein Feldlager in Schlesien; 1845; 1846; 1847; 5. Meyerbeer in Austria and Paris (1847-1851); 1848; The Year of Revolution; Bad Gastein and Bad Ischl; Paris; 1849; Le Prophète; 1850; The Consolidation of Success; 6. Meyerbeer in Berlin Again (1851-1853); 1851; 1852; 1853 
505 8 |a 7. Meyerbeer and the Opéra Comique (1854-1859)1854; L'Étoile du Nord; 1855; 1856; The Return to Italy; 1857 Paris and Nice; 1858; 1859; Le Pardon de Ploërmel; 8. Meyerbeer Back in Berlin (1860-1862); 1860; 1861; 1862; The Last Visit to London; 9. Meyerbeer's Last Return to Paris (1863-1864); 1863; 1864; Vasco de Gama/L'Africaine; Bibliography; Index; 1. General Index; 2. Index of Artists, Engravers, Lithographers and Photographers; 3. Index of Biographers, Scholars and Critics; 1) The Sources; 2) The Background; 3) The Life 
520 |a Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of nationalism and the growing ant-Semitism in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, the propagation of a Wagnerian operatic aesthetic, the decline of the bel canto vocal tradition, and the disfavour manifested towards the heroism of French grand opera. All these factors, and especially the b. 
500 |a EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America 
600 1 0 |a Meyerbeer, Giacomo,  |d 1791-1864  |x Diaries. 
650 0 |a Jewish composers  |z Germany  |x Correspondence. 
650 0 |a Jewish composers  |z Germany  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Opera  |x History  |y 19th century. 
648 7 |a 1800-1899  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Personal correspondence.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01919948 
655 7 |a Biographies.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 
655 7 |a Diaries.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01423794 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
730 0 |a WORLDSHARE SUB RECORDS 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Letellier, Robert Ignatius.  |t Giacomo Meyerbeer.  |d Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018  |z 9781527503960  |z 1527503968  |w (OCoLC)1026450526 
856 4 0 |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2018128&authtype=ip,sso&custid=s4672406  |z CONNECT  |3 eBooks on EBSCOhost  |t 0 
949 |a ho0 
994 |a 92  |b TXM 
998 |a wi  |d z 
999 f f |s 54d775d3-f145-4852-b1c9-52f8d85a0308  |i 54d775d3-f145-4852-b1c9-52f8d85a0308  |t 0 
952 f f |a Middle Tennessee State University  |b Main  |c James E. Walker Library  |d Electronic Resources  |t 0  |e ML410.M61 L38 2018eb  |h Library of Congress classification