[Gounod, Charles] De Bovet, Marie Anne.

Charles Gounod. His Life and Works. With portrait and facsimiles.

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891. 23cm x 14.5cm. xxxii, (3) 244 pages. Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor stain on endpaper. Stamp and annotation by previous owner on end paper. Spine starting to separate from the block. Minor traces of foxing to end papers and title page. Text itself in excellent condition. Very Rare !

Includes for Example: Gounod at home/ The Monceau quarter/ His house, family and study/ Sociability of musicians/ What Gounod thinks of virtuosi/ His favourite interpreters: Madame Viardot, Madame Carvalho, Madame Krauss/ Gounod rehearsing his interpreters/ His privacy invaded by professionals and amateurs/ His correspondence/ His unvarying politeness and inexhaustible good nature/ Concerts and festivals/ Leader of the orchestra/ Why a composer likes to direct the execution of his music/ Sensitiveness of musicians/ Opinions of St. Augustine and Alexandre Dumas on play-acting/ Over the 500th performance of “Faust” and the first of “L’Arlesienne”/ Gounod’s marriage/ His theatrical work/ The choruses of “Ulysses” at the Theatre Francais/ Grecian without being Pagan/ Two symphonies/ The “Nonne Sanglante” at the Opera/ “Faust”, Gounod’s masterpiece/ First application of the “leit motiv” by Monteverde in the sixteenth century/ State of French musical art at the time of “Faust’s” appearance/ Jules Barbier, Gounod’s librettist/ The quest for a manager, M. Carvalho accepts “Faust” for the Theatre Lyrique/ Gounod composes “Le Medecin malgre lui”/ Madame Miolhan Carvalho/ Demands for a final a l’Italienne/ Gounod looked upon as a revolutionary/ His views on music and musicians/ His reverance for Mozart/ What he thought of Bach, Weber, Palestrina, Gluck, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Bizet/ The burning question of Wagner/ How Gounod understood art/ His ironical catechism of modern music etc.

• Keywords: Composer · Music · Music – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 40524AB

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