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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor - The Revolution in Musical Performance in England, 1830-1880 (Paperback)
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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor - The Revolution in Musical Performance in England, 1830-1880 (Paperback)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Among the major changes that swept through the music industry
during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little
attention is how musical performances were managed and directed.
Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose
control shared between the violin-leader, musical director and
maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a
professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not
only baton conducting in its modern form, but also higher standards
of training and discipline, a new orchestral lay-out and a more
focused rehearsal regime. The resulting rise in standards of
performance was arguably the greatest achievement of English music
in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The key figure
in this process was Michael Costa, who built for himself
unprecedented contractual powers and used his awesome personal
authority to impose reform on the three main institutions of
mid-Victorian music: the opera houses, the Philharmonic and the
Sacred Harmonic Society. He was a central figure in the battles
between the two rival opera houses, between the Philharmonic and
the New Philharmonic, and between the venerable Ancient Concerts
and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society.
Costa's uniquely powerful position in the operatic, symphonic and
choral world and the rapidity with which he was forgotten after his
death provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing
aesthetics of the Victorian musical world.
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