Download or read book Les Diamants de la Couronne opera in three acts with Italian and English words Edited by A Sullivan and J Pittman Vocal score written by Daniel François Esprit Auber and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel Fran ois Esprit Auber written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the composer of La Muette de Portici (1828) and Fra Diavolo (1830), was once regarded as one of the great figures of music, a staple of the operatic repertoire in France, and indeed around the world. It is now almost impossible to understand the extent of his once universal fame, his influence on contemporary composers. His operas were in the theatre repertories of the world until the 1920s, and innumerable arrangements of them were published and sold everywhere. The ubiquity of his overtures—Masaniello, Fra Diavolo, The Bronze Horse, The Black Domino, The Crown Diamonds—once as popular as those of Rossini and Suppé, and the influence of his melodies and dance rhythms on piano and instrumental music, and on Romantic comic opera, was overwhelming. In his operas Auber avoided any excess in dramatic expression; all emotion and expressiveness, any vivid depiction of local milieu, were realized within his discreetly nuanced tones, always stamped with a Parisian elegance. His operas were loved in his native France until the years before the First World War, with Fra Diavolo and Le Domino noir last performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1909. Auber’s career was a record of this success and appreciation. His appointment to the Institute (1829) was followed by other prestigious posts: as Director of Concerts at Court (1839), director of the Paris Conservatoire (1842), Musical Director of the Imperial Chapel (1852), and Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur (1861). During his lifetime, six biographies appeared contemporaneously, with another six appearing posthumously in the period up to 1914. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, reactions to Wagner, Impressionism and the Neo-Classicism of the Ballet Russe resulted in a growing lack of interest in the ancient traditions of opéra-comique, with its charming plots, melodic directness and rhythmic élan. Boieldieu, Hérold, Adam and Auber were relegated to the dustbin of history. Only in Germany did the genre continue to flourish; Auber’s most enduring work is still performed there. His death in pitiful conditions during the Siege of Paris (1871), in the city he always loved, marked the end of an era. Auber now occupies a shadowy niche in the general consciousness as the name of the metro station nearest the Palais Garnier, and remains unknown and neglected (apart of course from Fra Diavolo), although his impact on the nineteenth-century operatic theatre was just as great as Rossini’s. The time has surely come for Auber’s life and work, especially in association with his life-long collaborator Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)—master dramatist and supreme librettist, a determining force in the history of opera—to be reassessed. Perhaps then the world will begin to hear more of Auber’s elegant gracious, life-affirming music, written to Scribe’s words. The aim of the present study is to offer an overview of the life and work of Auber by close examination of his forty operas, with consideration of origins, casting, plot, analysis of dramaturgy and musical style, and reception history. This is presented in the context of Auber's relationship to the dominant genres of early nineteenth century French culture, opéra comique and grand opéra. The three evolving periods of Auber's unique involvement with opéra comique are of principal concern. This analysis of the operas is made in the context of Auber's crucial working relationship with Scribe, who provided 38 of his libretti. Their cooperation is unique and of great importance on several literary, musical and cultural levels. The nature of their interaction and personal friendship is assessed by a translation of the extant correspondence between them, some 80 letters that have not appeared in English before. The presentation of each opera is illustrated by musical examples from all the scores, prints from the complete works of Scribe and other theatrical memorabilia. The study also contains bibliographies of Auber’s works and their contemporary arrangements, studies of Auber’s and Scribe’s life and work, their artistic and historical milieux, and a discography.
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalog of the Opera Collections in the Music Libraries University of California Berkeley University of California Los Angeles written by University of California, Berkeley and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1983 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les Diamants de la Couronne written by Daniel F. E. Auber and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein comic opera in three acts with French and English words the latter by C L Kenney Edited by J Pittman Vocal score written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Les Diamants De La Couronne written by Daniel François Esprit Auber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Les Diamants De La Couronne: Opera in Three Acts The young Princess maria francesca, on her accession to the throne of Portugal, finding the treasury almost exhausted, orders the jewels of the Crown to be sold, in order to defray the expenses of her coronation, intending to replace them by counterfeits. For this purpose she goes disguised to the retreat of a band of coiners, and pretending she is lady in waiting to the Queen, and bearing the royal instructions, engages them to manufacture a set of false diamonds, which may be worn in state without detection. Don enrico DE sandoval, a young nobleman of rank, returning home from his travels, is lost among the mountains and seized by the coiners. Catarina - the name the Queen assumes - rescues him. Struck with her beauty and manners, Enrico falls in love with her, although he is pledged to his cousin diana, and was on his way to be married when he was stopped so unceremoniously. Catarina is not insensible to the admiration of the young cavalier, with whose entire history, to his surprise, she is acquainted. The jewels completed, Catarina is desirous to convey them to Lisbon, and secure the escape of the coiners. The latter is not easy to accomplish, as the mountains are surrounded by soldiers, despatched by the Minister of Police, uncle to Enrico. Ultimately, the forgers, arrayed as monks, elude the vigilance of the guards, and effect their escape. Enrico reaches his uncle's house, and preparations are being made for his marriage with his cousin. The contract is about to be signed - equally to the regret of Diana as Enrico, since she and don sebastian, a young officer, had long been pledged to each other - when Catarina is ushered in, the carriage, conveying her to Lisbon, having broken down in front of the Minister's door. She is received most graciously by all except Enrico, who, recognising her, is terrified lest she should be discovered. Fortunately the Minister has not seen her, being summoned away, by information that the Crown Diamonds have' been stolen, or he must have detected the royal personage. Enrico, to ensure Catarina's safe retreat, discloses the secret of the incognita to Diana, and the cousins, now come to an understanding about their mutual love affairs, contrive Catarina's escape. The lady, however, does not depart without leaving behind her the intelligence that she is the famous Queen of the Bandits. The time of Her Majesty's coronation draws nigh. According to the wish of the late King, a Council of Regency had been appointed to choose a husband for the young Queen but, as the members cannot agree, Her Majesty resolves to make choice for herself; and so she selects him who loved her for herself alone, and whose virtues, she knows, will cast a lustre on her throne, brighter than jewels, or gold, or kingly rank. Don Enrico's feelings can only be imagined, when he recognises in the Queen of Portugal, Catarina, the chief of the coiners, and hears the royal voice pronounce the word that gives him new life, and realises his highest earthly dreams and aspirations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twelve Sonatinas written by Muzio Clementi and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged sonatinas for piano (Op. 36, 37, 38).
