French Music in Britain 1830-1914 investigates the presence,
reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830
(roughly the arrival of 'grand opera' and opera comique in London)
and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically
ordered chapters investigate key questions such as: * Where and to
whom was French music performed in Britain in the nineteenth
century? * How was this music received, especially by journal and
newspaper critics and other arbiters of taste? * What
characteristics and qualities did British audiences associate with
French music? * Was the presence and reception of French music in
any way influenced by Franco-British political relations, or other
aspects of cultural transfer and exchange? * Were British composers
influenced by their French contemporaries to any extent and, if so,
in what ways? Placed within the wider social and cultural context
of Britain's most ambiguous and beguiling international
relationship, this volume demonstrates how French music became an
increasingly significant part of the British musician's repertory
and influenced many composers. This is an important resource for
musicologists specialising in Nineteenth-Century Music, Music
History and European Music. It is also relevant for scholars and
researchers of French Studies and Cultural Studies.
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