This book was first published in hard covers in 1976 to mark the
centenary of the birth of Edward J. Dent, now best remembered as
translator of Mozart's opera libretti, as author of the best-known
popular introductory book, Opera (Penguin) and for his book on
Mozart's Operas (Oxford). He was a scholar of great range and wrote
with style and wit. For many years he was professor of Music at
Cambridge. Deriving from a course of previously unpublished
lectures, the book concentrates on the crucial romantic period and
shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is
often thought, but in the music-dramas and operas of revolutionary
France and that this music was a source of nineteenth-century
German symphonic style as well as of grand opera. The book is
edited by Winton Dean who supplied a brief introduction and a
number of notes incorporating relevant scholarship.
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