Giacomo Puccini and His World

Zusatztext "The collection is an amazing potpourri of Puccini scholarship." Informationen zum Autor Arman Schwartz is a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham and a member of the editorial board of Opera Quarterly . Emanuele Senici is professor of music history at the University of Rome la Sapienza and a former editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal . Klappentext Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. Zusammenfassung Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his

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• Authors: Arman Schwartz, Arman Senici Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, Emanuele Schwartz Senici
• Assisted by: Arman Schwartz (Editor), Schwartz Arman (Editor), Emanuele Senici (Editor), Senici Emanuele (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780691172866
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17286-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: The Bard Music Festival; The Bard Music Festival; Bard Music Festival, 41
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters