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Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France

La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 1834–80

Katharine Ellis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:31st May '07

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This book focuses on the musical writings in the daily and periodical press in France during the nineteenth century. It covers the criticism of a wide range of Western music, from c.1580 to 1880, explaining how composers such as Bach and Beethoven secured a permanent place in the repertory. In particular, Dr Ellis considers the music journalism of the Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, the single most important specialist periodical of the mid-nineteenth century, explaining how French music criticism was influenced by aesthetic and philosophical movements. Dr Ellis analyses the process of canon formation, the development of French musicology and the increasing sensitivity of critics to questions of performance practice. Chapters on new music examine the conflict inevitable in publishers' journals, between commercial interest and aesthetic integrity.

"Vital, stimulating, well-argued, and insightful engagement with such matters is what makes Ellis's book an important contribution to the history of canon formation, and to any number of other issues as well...." Steven Huebner, JAMS

ISBN: 9780521035897

Dimensions: 228mm x 150mm x 17mm

Weight: 477g

316 pages