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Genealogies of Music and Memory - Gluck in the 19th-Century Parisian Imagination (Hardcover)
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Genealogies of Music and Memory - Gluck in the 19th-Century Parisian Imagination (Hardcover)
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The history of music is most often written as a sequence of
composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the
past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a
composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the
stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated
in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the
composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his
music was known from a wide range of musical and literary
environments. Received opinion has Hector Berlioz as the sole
guardian of the Gluckian flame from the 1820s onwards, and
responsible - together with the soprano Pauline Viardot - for the
'revival' of the composer's Orfeo in 1859. The picture is much
clarified by looking at the concert performances of Gluck during
the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, and the ways in
which they were received and the literary discourses they
engendered. Coupled to questions of music publication, pedagogy,
and the institutional status of the composer, such a study reveals
a wide range of individual agents active in the promotion of
Gluck's music for the Parisian stage. The 'revival' of Orfeo is
contextualised among other attempts at reviving Gluck's works in
the 1860s, and the role of Berlioz, Viardot and a host of others
re-examined.
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