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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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French Only.

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This Book Is In Latin. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Kalmus presents a new vocal score of the Offenbach comic opera. ... Read more

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THE KING OF OF FRENCH OPERETTA
This is an excellent overview of OFFENBACH'S life and works,focusing on his best operettas that are the objects of a good analysis.Like all great composers of the past,OFFENBACH needs to be replaced in his original context to be fully appreciated.What you learn is that he was a family man who loved his children.He was also a composer who had many parallels with ROSSINI;both were considered bouffons and desperetately wanted to be taken seriously as composers.There are pictures of HORTENSE SCHNEIDER who created many roles and a few of him as well.OFFENBACH was a favorite victim of the caricaturistes of his time.He was also in a way a feminist before his time,because he created strong characters for women.In all,this is a usefull book,worth reading. ... Read more

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This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer s life. ... Read more

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Successful Overview of Offenbachs Live
This is one of a series intended to provide a brief though thorough review of a composers life and works. The author successfully meets the criteria for inclusion in that series through a comprehensive, clear, and interesting story-like approach to the personal life and career of Jacques Offenbach. In addition to endowing his work with a personalized style which makes it very much like speaking to a learned friend over afternoon tea, the illustrations, particularly photographs of some of the figures appearing in the story and caricatures of Offenbach himself, add a welcome dashof flavoring to the story.
Thisis not intended to be a study in depth nor a critical review but a work premised on agreement that Offenbach is worth knowing about. It will, certainly, stimulate one to the desire to see more of his operettas as a light hearted approach to life offered by a serious master of effervescent music with librettists who provided him with appropriate vehicles for the creation of gaiety in the audience. ... Read more