French Music Since Berlioz
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Comtesse Greffulhe
Concerts Colonne
De La Tour Eiffel
Deborah Mawer
Deirdre Donnellon
Emmanuel Chabrier
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French classical music history analysis
French Composers
Gaspard De La Nuit
Henri Dutilleux
James Ross
Jehan Alain
La Revue Musicale
Le Coq
Le Gibet
Le Tombeau De Couperin
Les Offrandes
messiaen
musicology research France
Nigel Simeone
nineteenth-century opera
olivier
Olivier Messiaen
opera
organ repertoire Paris
Peter O'Hagan
piano
Piano Quartet
Pierre Boulez
Pivot Note
pli
Pli Selon Pli
Princesse De Polignac
quartet
Richard Langham Smith
Robert De Montesquiou
Robert Orledge
Roy Howat
salon music France
Satie's Music
Satie’s Music
schola
Schola Cantorum
selon
symphonic traditions France
Thomas Copper
Timothy Jones
Trois Petites Liturgies
twentieth-century composers France
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138273450
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars who provide their own perspectives on particular aspects of the subject. Déirdre Donnellon's introduction discusses important issues and debates in French classical music of the period, highlights key figures and institutions, and provides a context for the chapters that follow. The first two of these are concerned with opera in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, addressed by Thomas Cooper for the nineteenth century and Richard Langham Smith for the twentieth. Timothy Jones's chapter follows, which assesses the French contribution to those most Germanic of genres, nineteenth-century chamber music and symphonies. The quintessentially French tradition of the nineteenth-century salon is the subject of James Ross's chapter, while the more sacred setting of Paris's most musically significant churches and the contribution of their organists is the focus of Nigel Simeone's essay. The transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century is explored by Roy Howat through a detailed look at four leading figures of this time: Fauré, Chabrier, Debussy and Ravel. Robert Orledge follows with a later group of composers, Satie & Les Six, and examines the role of the media in promoting French music. The 1930s, and in particular the composers associated with Jeune France, are discussed by Deborah Mawer, while Caroline Potter investigates Parisian musical life during the Second World War. The book closes with two chapters that bring us to the present day. Peter O'Hagan surveys the enormous contribution to French music of Pierre Boulez, and Caroline Potter examines trends since 1945. Aimed at teachers and students of French music history, as well as performers and the inquisitive concert- and opera-goer, French Music Since Berlioz is an essential companion for anyone interested in the culture of France.
