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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (Hardcover)
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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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The 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris has become famous as a
turning point in the history of French music, and modern music
generally. For the first time, Debussy and his fellow composers
could be inspired by Javanese gamelan music, while the Russian
concerts conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov brought recent music by the
Mighty Five to Parisian ears. But the 1889 World's Fair had much
wider musical and cultural ramifications; one contemporary
described it as a "gigantic encyclopedia, in which nothing was
forgotten." Music was so pervasive at the 1889 Exposition
Universelle that newspaper journalists compared the sonic side of
the affair to a "musical orgy." Musical encounters at the fair
ranged from bandstand marches to folk and non-Western ensembles to
symphonic and operatic premieres by Massenet to the mass-marketed
Edison phonograph. A rich and vivid literature (from newspaper
columns to memoirs that are plumbed here for the first time)
comments about this sonic landscape, reflecting the reactions and
responses of composers (Saint-Saens), writers (Judith Gautier), and
journalists (Gaston Calmette). Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris
World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used,
appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the
six months of the Exposition Universelle. It thereby also reveals
the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more
generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century. Annegret
Fauser is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her many publications include books on
French Wagnerism, Massenet's opera Esclarmonde, and French
orchestral songs from Berlioz to Ravel.
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