Dissonance in the Republic of Letters

Dissonance in the Republic of Letters
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781351192057
ISBN-13 : 1351192051
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Book Synopsis Dissonance in the Republic of Letters by : Mark Darlow

Download or read book Dissonance in the Republic of Letters written by Mark Darlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often characterised by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press controversy which featured a rival Neapolitan composer, Niccolo Piccinni. However, as this study shows, the Gluck-Piccinni controversy was about far more than which composer was better suited to lead French operatic reform. A consideration of cultural politics in 1770s Paris shows that a range of issues were at stake: court versus urban taste as the proper judge of music, whether amateurs or specialists should have the right to speak of opera, whether the epic or the tragic mode is more suited for drama reform, and even: why should the public argue about opera at all? Mark Darlow is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge."


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