Giacomo Meyerbeer

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Critical Life and Iconography
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2000. MacDonogh, Giles. Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea. London: Sinclair-Stephenson, 1994. —. Frederick the Great. London: Phoenix Press, 1999. McKay, Derek. The Great Elector, Profiles in Power.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Discography of Vintage Recordings 1889 - 1955
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    Bénard, M_____ (bs), 6,76 Bendinelli, Angelo (t), 49,76 Benedetti, Preste (b), 44,47,77 Bennett, Mavis (s), ... L_____ N. (s), 13,85 Brancaleoni, Ettore (bs-b), 6, 12,86 Brandt, Marianne (c), 27,86 Branzell, Karin (ms), 27, 29, 86, 300, ...

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Guide to Research
    By Marco Clemente Pellegrini

    Paris: Louis-Michaud [1910]. GIRARDI, Michele and ROSSI, ... GOURRET, J. Ces Hommes qui ont fait l'Opéra, 1669-1984. Paris: Éditions Albatros, 1984. ... London: Pitman Publishing/ Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1974. —.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Reputation without Cause? A Composer and his Critics
    By Jennifer Jackson

    Steen, Michael, Enchantress of Nations: Pauline Viardot: Soprano, Muse and Lover, Cambridge, 2007. Strauss, Richard and von Hofmannsthal, Hugo, Correspondence (translated by Hanns Hammelmann and Ewald Osers), London, 1961.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Reader
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    Finally, it surveys the critical rediscovery that was initiated by the bicentenary of his birth in 1991, a process that is still developing apace.The Reader also presents a series of portraits of the composer, and some images from his ...

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters
    By Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinz Becker, Gudrun Becker

    A collection of letters by Meyerbeer, the operatic composer who died in 1864. Critics have recently re-evaluated his work, recognizing his musical craftmanship, his dramatic sense and his influence on...

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    By Violaine Anger

    La 4e de couv. indique : "Né à côté de Berlin dans une riche famille juive, Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) donne ses premiers concerts publics à seulement dix ans.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Non-Operatic Texts
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    The fame of Giacomo Meyerbeer is associated principally with the operatic stage, but he wrote for the voice extensively in other genres as well, including non-operatic stage works, occasional public works, sacred music, choral music and ...

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Cantatas for Festive Occasions
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    This collection, including both published vocal and full scores, contains the unpublished cantata written for Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b.1784, ruled 1806–1844), the father of Prince Albert the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Music by Royal Command
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    The manuscripts scores contained in this collection further extend knowledge about Meyerbeer’s non-operatic compositions—instrumental, choral and occasional.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Sacred Works
    By Robert Ignatius Letellier

    These small occasional works had their own particular social purposes, and serve as a bridge to this composer’s most encompassing and important religious works.