Giacamo Meyerbeer : The Deliberately Forgotten Composer
by
David Faiman
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9657023157
ISBN-13
9789657023150
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Imprint
Gefen Publishing House
Country of Manufacture
IL
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 28th, 2020
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
382 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: arts & entertainment
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When Giacomo Meyerbeer died in 1864 at the age of seventy-two, he was widely regarded as having written the greatest operas since Mozart. And yet, remarkably, his fame and his very name were all but eliminated from the history of music for approximately a hundred years. Who did the dastardly deed? Each for his own reasons, the principal culprits were Schumann, Mendelssohn, Heine, and Wagner. David Faiman presents here an outline of Meyerbeer''s life: his precocious childhood in Prussia, his rise to fame in Italy, his reluctant achievement of superstar status in Paris, the jealousy this engendered among some of his less successful colleagues, and the way one of the above-mentioned availed himself of the latent anti-Semitism of nineteenth-century audiences to remove Meyerbeer''s works from our stages and airbrush his very name from our awareness. Thankfully Meyerbeer is now enjoying a deserved revival. This book helps to reintroduce some of the music world''s greatest long-lost pleasures.
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