250 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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French Music in Britain 1830–1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of ‘grand opera’ and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically ordered chapters investigate key questions such as:
* Where and to whom was French music performed in Britain in the nineteenth century?... Read more
1. Franco-British Cultural Relations 1660–1830
2. From Auber to Meyerbeer, 1830–62
3. From Faust to Carmen, 1863–78
4. Fin-de-siècle: French music in Britain 1879–1900
5. Entente Cordiale: French music in Britain 1901–14
Biography
Paul Rodmell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on British musical culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is the author of monographs on Charles Villiers Stanford and Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918.
