Winton Dean Libros

This book was first published in hard covers in 1976 to mark the centenary of the birth of Edward J. Dent, now best remembered as translator of Mozart's opera libretti, as author of the best-known popular introductory book, Opera (Penguin) and for his book on Mozart's Operas (Oxford). He was a scholar of great range and wrote with style and wit. For many years he was professor of Music at Cambridge. Deriving from a course of previously unpublished lectures, the book concentrates on the crucial romantic period and shows how romantic opera had its origins not in Germany, as is often thought, but in the music-dramas and operas of revolutionary France and that this music was a source of nineteenth-century German symphonic style as well as of grand opera. The book is edited by Winton Dean who supplied a brief introduction and a number of notes incorporating relevant scholarship.

Le compositeur français Georges Bizet (1838-1875) est mondialement connu pour son opéra 'Carmen'. Winton Dean propose une exploration de la vie méconnue du compositeur : du conservatoire de Paris, où Bizet commença ses leçons à l'âge de neuf ans, à l'obtention du Prix de Rome, la plus haute distinction de l'époque, à l'âge de dix-neuf ans, en passant par les difficultés rencontrées dans le milieu musical corrompu de Paris sous Napoléon III, jusqu'à la première de 'Carmen', qui fut un échec, et son décès prématuré à 37 ans. Dean analyse la correspondance personnelle de Bizet et décrit l'évolution de sa pensée et de sa création musicale.