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Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, ii: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath 1789-1795
\"Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, ii: The Pantheon Opera and its Aftermath 1789-1795\" by Judith Milhous, Gabriella Dideriksen and Robert D. Hume is reviewed.
Book Review
Opera under the French Revolution
There is never much danger of historians underrating the political, social or literary importance of the French Revolution. While that cataclysmic event is acknowledged to have affected the course of musical development, as of everything else, the music composed in Paris at the time has received little attention. This neglect has distorted our view of the past. We are apt to think of the romantic movement in music as a German development, stemming from Beethoven, who in turn built on tidy foundations laid by Haydn and Mozart. This view, fostered by German scholarship, contains an element of truth; but it is very far from being the whole story. If there was such a thing as a romantic breakthrough, it occurred in France in the early 1790s. before Beethoven had formed his style. It was largely a product of the Revolution, and like most other musical innovations during the baroque, classical and romantic periods—monody, the symphony, sonata form, the Mozartian concerto, the relaxation of tonality in Wagner—its origins must be sought in the opera house.
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More Scott Operas: Further Analyses of Operas Based on the Works of Sir Walter Scott
Dean reviews \"More Scott Operas: Further Analyses of Operas Based on the Works of Sir Walter Scott\" by Jerome Mitchell.
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