Giacomo Meyerbeer: Reputation Without Cause?: A Composer and His Critics

by Jennifer Jackson

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris. whose music continued to be frequently performed worldwide until the twentieth. Today, recent scholars acknowledge his stature but his operas have become stage rarities. There is normally a gap is on shelves in libraries and bookshops between Mendelssohn and Mozart (Messaien and Monteverdi for the better resourced). There is no biography or broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in print in Engl...

315 pages, Unknown Binding

First published July 1, 2011