Music and manners in France and Germany : a series of travelling sketches of art and society
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Music and manners in France and Germany : a series of travelling sketches of art and society
(Cambridge library collection, music)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
- v. 3 : pbk
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Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841
"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108001892
Description
Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years. This three-volume book, published in 1841, originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. There are detailed accounts of Paris and Berlin, with prominence given to opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. Chorley also describes visits to Brunswick, Leipzig, Dresden and Nuremburg, and performances by artists including Mendelssohn and Liszt. He intersperses anecdotes about transport, lodgings, landscapes and local customs. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eyewitness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century. Volume 1 describes his visits to Paris and Brunswick, focusing on opera.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Grand Opera of Paris: 1. 'Esmeralda'
- 2. The drop-curtain
- 3. The 'mystery' of young France
- 4. The art of opera
- 5. The national opera
- 6. Duprez
- 7. The masterpiece of French opera
- Part II. The Brunswick Festival: 1. The journey and the rehearsal
- 2. First day
- 3. Second day
- 4. Third day.
- Volume
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108001908
Description
Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years. This three-volume book, published in 1841, originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. There are detailed accounts of Paris and Berlin, with prominence given to opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. Chorley also describes visits to Brunswick, Leipzig, Dresden and Nuremburg, and performances by artists including Mendelssohn and Liszt. He intersperses anecdotes about transport, lodgings, landscapes and local customs. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eyewitness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century. Volume 2 describes his visits to the Harz mountains and Berlin.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Three Days in the Harz Country: 1. A night on the Brocken
- 2. Rubeland
- 3. The ross-trappe
- Part II. Glimpses of Berlin: 1. First impressions
- 2. The court and the opera
- 3. Specimens of German nationality
- 4. Morning hours
- 5. A letter to a lady
- 6. Quartetts and amateurs
- 7. A Gluck pilgrimage
- Part III. Parisian authorities: 1. French critics - the journalists.
- Volume
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781108001915
Description
Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years. This three-volume book, published in 1841, originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. There are detailed accounts of Paris and Berlin, with prominence given to opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. Chorley also describes visits to Brunswick, Leipzig, Dresden and Nuremburg, and performances by artists including Mendelssohn and Liszt. He intersperses anecdotes about transport, lodgings, landscapes and local customs. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eyewitness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century. Volume 3 describes visits to Leipzig, Dresden, Nuremburg and Paris.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Parisian Authorities: 2. French critics - the enthusiasts
- 3. M. Liszt
- 4. The conservatoire
- Part II. The Leipsic Fair: 1. The concerts
- 2. Traces of Bach
- Part III. Two Visits to Dresden
- 1. The opera and its environs
- 2. Organ-playing
- Notes on Nuremburg
- Part IV. Parisian Contrasts: 1. Sunday morning
- 2. The palace and the people.
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