The music of power: Parisian opera and the politics of genre, 1806-1864

Music for the stage has always been embedded in a network of power relationships between states, impresarios, librettists, artists, entrepreneurs, and composers. This article seeks to understand and explain how these relationships functioned in the period when French music drama was subject to a sys...

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Main Author: Everist, Mark (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014-12-01.
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