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The Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967
D. Kern Holoman
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Hardback. This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790's, it reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Num Pages: 636 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 13 tables, 1 music example. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 948.
This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer whose command of the subject is nothing short of virtuosic. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790s, the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. D. Kern Holoman describes how in the 1820s and 1830s the potent forces of democracy, exclusivity, and revolutionary fervor that collided in and around the Conservatoire forged and then tempered an organization as flexible ... Read more
This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer whose command of the subject is nothing short of virtuosic. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790s, the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. D. Kern Holoman describes how in the 1820s and 1830s the potent forces of democracy, exclusivity, and revolutionary fervor that collided in and around the Conservatoire forged and then tempered an organization as flexible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
Number of Pages
636
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520236646
SKU
V9780520236646
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About D. Kern Holoman
D. Kern Holoman is Barbara K. Jackson Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he conducts the UCD Symphony Orchestra. He is the author of Berlioz (1989), Evenings with the Orchestra: A Norton Companion for Concertgoers (1992), and, most recently, of Masterworks: A Musical Discovery (third edition, 2003).
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