Giacomo Meyerbeer
This collection reveals unknown non-operatic works by the great operatic master Meyerbeer. From a substantial cantata to celebratory marches and brief choruses, these manuscript scores were all written ‘by Royal Command’ for German Royal families.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Though Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde (1812), failed at its premiere, this score contains the seeds of his future greatness. It reveals his famed orchestral virtuosity and psychological exploration, pointing beyond Gluck toward Weber-Wagner.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This volume presents the pieces of music—from fragments to whole scenes—not used in the final performing edition of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine. These unused variants remain a crucial source for the history and future of this great opera.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast is based on an Arabian Nights tale. Championed by Weber for its delicate instrumentation, it shows astonishing maturity for a composer of twenty-one, using recurrent themes to present the plot’s conflict before Wagner.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Once one of the most famous of all composers, his reputation declined amidst growing hostility. This Reader reflects his immense fame, the dismissal he faced, and the recent rediscovery and re-evaluation of his art.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
The result of years of research, this guide is an essential bibliographical aid for Giacomo Meyerbeer. It presents his papers, music, and correspondence alongside resources on his life, contemporaries, and historical context, from scores to modern recordings.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer is famed for opera, but he also wrote a body of carefully crafted religious works throughout his life. These pieces, from youthful songs to monumental psalms, reveal the depth of his religious convictions and ecumenical openness.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation’s vicissitudes.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
Giacomo Meyerbeer Orchestral Works
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a master of 19th-century opera, was renowned for impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power. This volume gathers his finest orchestral works, from famous opera ballets and marches to grand festive overtures waiting to be rediscovered.
Among the earliest books on Edvard Grieg, and written while he was still alive, this volume is a thorough account of the man and his music. It explores his influences, from Ibsen to Norwegian folk music, making it indispensable for scholars and newcomers alike.
This accessible work traces Haydn’s development as both a man and a composer. It details his compositions, social habits, humour, and piety, and includes a useful catalogue of his works, a selection of his letters, and his last will and testament.
Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal
This monograph investigates the Malay ghazal, in its various shapes and with its different meanings, in order to study the musical traces of Hindustani culture. It describes the development of the ghazal, from its early forms to its modern transformation into local art.
The concern of this anthology is the relationship between traditional music and archives as seen from historical and epistemological perspectives. The articles within focus on archives, individual and collective memory, and heritage as today’s recreation of the past.
Historical Trends in Georgian Traditional and Sacred Music
This review of Georgian ethnomusicology is a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in traditional music. Amid the growing popularity of Georgian choral singing, this volume is essential for both ethnomusicologists and enthusiasts.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
Il Crociato in Egitto
This book reproduces the vocal score of Meyerbeer’s opera Il Crociato in Egitto, a work standing between epochs. The antagonism between Crusaders and Egyptians is depicted as a confrontation between cultures, blending traditional virtuosity with modern dramaturgy.