The Experience of Opera

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The Experience of Opera PAUL HENRY LANG Opera has long been the most popular and fascinating of entertainments and its combination of music and drama has resulted in a unique art form. This book is based on Paul Henry Lang's experience as a music critic for the Nem York Herald Tribüné and preserves his immediate reactions to performances as well as presenting his perceptive insights into opera from Gluck to the present day. Most of the major composers are discussed including Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg and Stravinsky. There are alsó chapters on opera buffa, verismo, French opera, operetta and opera in concert form. Paul Henry Lang's book offers an informál history of opera and his unique combination of scholarly breadth and critical acumen makes this an invaluable collection of essays for the reader and opera enthusiast.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Paul Henry Lang This biography re-examines the life and works of Handel, to... Tovább

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The Experience of Opera PAUL HENRY LANG Opera has long been the most popular and fascinating of entertainments and its combination of music and drama has resulted in a unique art form. This book is based on Paul Henry Lang's experience as a music critic for the Nem York Herald Tribüné and preserves his immediate reactions to performances as well as presenting his perceptive insights into opera from Gluck to the present day. Most of the major composers are discussed including Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg and Stravinsky. There are alsó chapters on opera buffa, verismo, French opera, operetta and opera in concert form. Paul Henry Lang's book offers an informál history of opera and his unique combination of scholarly breadth and critical acumen makes this an invaluable collection of essays for the reader and opera enthusiast.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Paul Henry Lang This biography re-examines the life and works of Handel, to show his boundless courage, his single-minded and almost ruthless determination to conquer and the genius with which he set to music humán passions and the forces that control humán destiny. As a result of this study an entirely different man emerges: one of the greatest composers the world has known, whose time has come after two centuries of misr epresentation. 'A work that tackles its subject thoroughly and scrupulously, covering the very extensive ground with unflagging enthusiasm and a strong sense of where detail relates to a generál pattern. There are surprisingly few modern large-scale generál studies of major composers: this one is a solid achievement that will be relied on for a long time to come.' Sunday Telegraph 'Professor Lang is at his best as a cultural histórián. He gives a very full picture of the climate in which Handel worked; its determining factors in church and state, in English character and taste, have seldom been so clearly related to the art they produced ... his estimate of the nature and scope of HandePs genius could scarcely be bettered. He understands the man and his period, and throws light on many aspects of his style, especially in the church music and the oratorios. The book is excellently written and attractively prouced.' Winton Dean in the Sunday Times Vissza