Author: Heyward John SAINT LEGER
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: H. J. St. Leger
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Author: William Tyldesley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351558307
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and in-depth study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers new suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer. Far from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straits on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them. Those wishing to perform Balfe's works or to do further research into them, will find Tyldesley's re-examination of the composer a necessary first port of call.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238

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Author: Margaret Leeson
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Witty, unbuttoned and frank, and astonishingly detailed, these are the memoirs of Margaret Leeson (1727- 1797), Dublin's best-known and most stylish brothel keeper of the late eighteenth century. Unpublished since their day (when they sold quite well

Author: Ralph P. Locke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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"The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America

Author: Edward Stirling
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: William Henry Grattan Flood
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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