Camille Saint-Saëns on music and musicians /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Nichols, Roger
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
French
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=26b876d52e1a4638a817aaee40ef882b
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages)
ISBN: 9780199717750
9780195320169
CLC: J605.565
Contents: Introduction -- Art for art's sake -- Harmony and melody -- The Birmingham Festivals -- Musical eccentricities -- He?le?ne -- On not writing a preface -- Musical trends -- In defence of Ope?ra-comique -- The old Conservatoire -- The organ -- Meyerbeer -- Rossini -- Berlioz I -- Berlioz II -- Liszt I -- Liszt II -- Wagner : Bayreuth 1876 -- The Wagnerian illusion -- Gounod -- Offenbach I -- Offenbach II -- Memories of childhood -- Bizet -- Massenet -- Pauline Viardot -- Four poems to friends.