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Carl Maria Von Weber
Joseph E. Morgan
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Description for Carl Maria Von Weber
Num Pages: 328 pages, 94 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 18 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Renowned music historian Philipp Spitta has written that “of all the German musicians of the 19th century, none has exercised a greater influence over his own generation and that succeeding it than Weber.” Spitta’s statement reflects Weber’s popularity at the end of the nineteenth 19th century—both for his place as a foundational figure of German Romantic opera and for his role in the early German Nationalist movement in music. Indeed, Weber’s Der Freischütz is still considered the first German Romantic opera, enjoying a place of privilege in the modern operatic repertoire with performances held the world over and at least ... Read more
Renowned music historian Philipp Spitta has written that “of all the German musicians of the 19th century, none has exercised a greater influence over his own generation and that succeeding it than Weber.” Spitta’s statement reflects Weber’s popularity at the end of the nineteenth 19th century—both for his place as a foundational figure of German Romantic opera and for his role in the early German Nationalist movement in music. Indeed, Weber’s Der Freischütz is still considered the first German Romantic opera, enjoying a place of privilege in the modern operatic repertoire with performances held the world over and at least ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442235946
SKU
V9781442235946
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Ref
99-15
About Joseph E. Morgan
Joseph E. Morgan is assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, and Boston University. His research focuses on the dramatic music, theory and aesthetics of Germany in the early nineteenth century, and he has presented and published articles on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Robert ... Read more
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