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Gluck and the Opera - A Study in Musical History (Book)
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Gluck and the Opera - A Study in Musical History (Book)
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Early in his long career, the self-taught English music critic
Ernest Newman (1868 1959) wrote this influential account of Gluck's
life and musical achievements in relation to the intellectual life
of the eighteenth century. First published in 1895, Gluck and the
Opera traces the composer's ideas and his efforts to move opera
forward after a period of stagnation. Musicians, thinkers and
satirists had been writing for generations about the need to reform
the opera, but it was Gluck who brought about far-reaching changes
that paved the way for Mozart, Weber and Wagner. His most notable
innovation was the fusing of the Italian and French operatic
traditions. The first part of the book is a chronological account
of Gluck's eventful career, which took him all over Europe but was
centred on Paris and Vienna. The second part deals with Gluck in
his broader cultural and intellectual context, and lists his works.
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