Download or read book Letters to Madame Viardot written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of the great Russian writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev to M me Pauline Viardot; the famous singer; have their story. Lost or stolen; when the war of 1870 forced the Viardot family to leave Baden for London; these letters were found more than a quarter of a century later. Naturally; Ms. Viardot wished to take possession of documents which she had never voluntarily divested; and to which she had all the moral and legal rights. On the other hand; the motives advanced by the present possessor to keep the letters were not without value either. He had found the precious package-among some unimportant papers-in a box he had bought from a Berlin bookstaller; he; in his turn; had acquired it from the widow of a French doctor; it seems; here; stop my investigation on the origin of the box. Be that as it may; the last purchaser; a devoted admirer of Tourgueneff; made it his duty to preserve as a sacred deposit the correspondence which chance placed in his hands until the day when he could make it public; and he thought that this day could come only after the death of the recipient of the letters. Since; in the end; the owner of the letters was less preoccupied with a pecuniary question than with the desire to surround this publication with better possible literary conditions; I end up persuading him of the real advantages that would be gained by living it. under the auspices of the famous artist.
Download or read book An Unofficial Marriage written by Joie Davidow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fans of Alexander Chee's best-selling novel, The Queen of the Night and opera fans everywhere. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of 19th century Europe, An Unofficial Marriage dramatizes the equally tumultuous real-life love affair of two great artists—the famous Russian author, Ivan Turgenev, and the celebrated French opera singer, Pauline Viardot. From the moment he encounters her on the St. Petersburg stage, Ivan falls completely for Pauline. Though Pauline returns his feelings, she is bound by her singular passion for her art and her devotion to her gentle, older husband, Louis. Nevertheless, Ivan pursues Pauline across countries and continents—from Russia to France to Germany to Prussia—and in the decades that follow their fateful meeting, the lives of Pauline, Ivan, and Louis remain permanently intertwined as the lovers face jealousy, separation, the French Revolution of 1848, the cholera epidemic of 1849, the Franco-Prussian War, Turgenev’s arrest in Russia, Louis’s heartbreak and resignation, and the highs and lows of their artistic careers. “You know those unofficial marriages,” Turgenev would write almost thirty years after meeting Pauline, “They sometimes turn out more poisonous than the accepted form.” With beautiful and compelling prose and employing multiple perspectives, Joie Davidow (who herself has a background in opera) illuminates not only the interior lives of these two intensely passionate artists, but also the grand historic moments that Pauline and Ivan experienced and the celebrated figures who moved in their circles—including George Sand, Leo Tolstoy, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Ary Scheffer—providing insight into the dynamic worlds of 19th century opera, literature, art, and politics. Epic in the tradition of the Russian writers whom we encounter, and as romantic and tragic as the operas that Pauline Viardot performs in, An Unofficial Marriage brings to life with great scope and great humanity this captivating story from the past and explores timeless questions about the relationship between art and passion and the complex workings of the human heart.
Download or read book A Supplement to Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil written by Frederic George Kitton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil written by Frederic George Kitton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dodillon copies of Letters written by Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Price of Genius written by April Fitzlyon and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Garcia Viardot, the daughter of the famous singer and composer Manuel Garcia and younger sister of the celebrated Malibran, was a singer of genius and a woman of outstanding intellect. The first biography of Viardot not only recreates the drama of the prima donna's own life, but perfectly captures the scintillating brilliance of nineteenth-century artistic life: the colourful and diverse personalities of the Musset brothers, Chopin, George Sand, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gounod and Saint-Saens move in and out of Viardot's life. In 1843 Madame Viardot met the young Ivan Turgenev. From their first meeting until his death in 1883, he remained passionately devoted to her, following her around Europe and spending long periods of time as a member of her household.This authoritative study, which makes use of much hitherto unknown source material, has the fascination of a great Russian novel.
Download or read book Tourgu neff and His French Circle written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Musical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Courts of Memory 1858 1875 from Contemporary Letters written by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters" by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Musical Times Singing class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer 1840 1849 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 covers the 1840s, a period designated as the Prussian Years. From 1846 Meyerbeer's journal becomes a consistent daily record, resulting in one of the most sustained depictions of a contemporary artistic, theatrical, and musical milieu ever kept by a famous composer. Illustrated.
Download or read book Letters and Speeches written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1857 1880 written by Gustave Flaubert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times.
Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer The years of celebrity 1850 1856 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 covers a time span that preeminently represents the period in the composer's life known as The Years of International Fame (1850-56). Confirmed as the major figure on the operatic scene, and freed from the more onerous duties of his official position, Meyerbeer was able to enjoy his most remarkable period of stability and renown, as the detailed and absorbing diary entries reveal. These years saw the composing, rehearsing, and staging of L'Etoile du Nord (1854), and his personal supervision of major productions in London, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna.
Download or read book The Life Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky written by Modeste Tchaikovsky and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky by Modeste Tchaikovsky
Download or read book Dickens Journalism Music written by Robert Terrell Bledsoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round reflects the increasing importance of music to Dickens in his later life.
