Fidelio is Beethoven's only complete opera and one of the most admired, and problematic, in the repertoire. This Opera Handbook explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within the work as well as the debt to the traditions of French opera in the late eighteenth century and the French Revolution. Winton Dean offers a comparison of the opera's first (1805) and final (1814) versions. Essays by Michael Tusa and Joseph Kerman consider its musical idiom and the challenges Beethoven faced as an instrumental composer trying his hand at opera. A final chapter examines the opera's performance history, and the volume also includes a synopsis, bibliography, and informative illustrations.
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Beethoven's only complete opera is one of the most admired and problematic. These essays explore the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within the work as well as its debt to the traditions of French opera in the late eighteenth century and the French Revolution.
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Fidelio is unique among operas in the standard repertory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Fidelio is unique among operas in the standard repertory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dungeon quartet, gold aria, liebt mich, action ensembles, dungeon scene, amour conjugal, fait historique, ist klar, only opera, final tableau Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Fernando, French Revolution, Don Giovanni, Ninth Symphony, Fifth Symphony, Winton Dean, Maynard Solomon, Pierre Gaveaux, Vestas Feuer, Richard Strauss, Baron Braun, Dialogue Rocco, Don Pizarro, Joseph Sonnleithner New!
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- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 7 pages
- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I by Elliot Forbes on 4 pages
- Prose Works (8 Volumes) (Music Book Index) by Richard Wagner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Letters of Beethoven by Ludwig Van Beethoven in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera: 4 volumes by Stanley Sadie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment. by Berthold Hoeckner on 6 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley on 4 pages
- German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by John Warrack in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 by Mark Everist on page 275, and Back Matter
- Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by David R. B. Kimbell in Front Matter
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