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A THOROUGHLY REASEARCHED BOOK!
THIS BOOK IS WORTH EVERY PENNY . . . A COMPLETE PORTRAYALOF SALIERI AND THE VIENESSE OPERA.ALSO DELVES INTO THE MANY MYTHSREGARDING SALIERO'S RELATIONSHIP TO MOZART AND HIS DEATH. THE AUTHORIS TO BE COMMENDED ... Read more

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Very Informative, But Too Technical
This book is a long-overdue tribute to a much and unfairly maligned operatic genius of classical Italian music, who was one of Beethoven's teachers. The book contains not only a Salieri biography, but a detailedhistory of the opera in to Salieri's day and rightly regards him as thesuccessor of Gluck's reform operas. The major fault of the book is that itwill appeal mainly to musicians and musical historians rather than thegeneral reader due to its over-technical nature with regard to some areas.Still, the best book about Salieri's life and art. ... 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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Chapters: Antonio Salieri. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Antonio Salieri (Legnago, 18 August 1750 Vienna, 7 May 1825) was a Venetian composer, conductor and teacher born in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg Monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protege of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Salieri helped to develop and shape many of the features of operatic compositional vocabulary and his music was a powerful influence on contemporary composers. Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna. During his career he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Venice, Rome, and Paris. His dramatic works were widely performed throughout Europe during his life time. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school. Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life. Schubert, Beethoven, and Liszt were among the most famous of his pupils. Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868, and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century. This revival was due to his dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction in the play and film Amadeus (1979, 1984) by Peter Shaffer. His music today has regained some mod...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2241 ... Read more

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Chapters: Les Danaïdes, Europa Riconosciuta, List of Operas by Salieri, Falstaff, Der Rauchfangkehrer, La Cifra, Prima La Musica E Poi le Parole, La Grotta Di Trofonio, Axur, Re D'ormus, La Scuola De' Gelosi, Armida, Les Horaces, Palmira, Regina Di Persia, Tarare, La Fiera Di Venezia, Il Ricco D'un Giorno. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Les Danaïdes is an opera by Antonio Salieri, in 5 acts: more specifically, it is a tragédie lyrique. The opera was set to a libretto by Leblanc du Roullet and Baron Tschudi, who in turn adapted the work of Ranieri de' Calzabigi (without permission). Calzabigi originally wrote the libretto of Les Danaïdes for Christoph Willibald Gluck, but the aged composer, who had just experienced a stroke, was unable to meet the Opéra's schedule and so asked Salieri to take it over. The plot of the opera is based on Greek tragedy and revolves around the deeds of the mythological characters Danaus and Hypermnestra. Emperor Joseph II assured that Salieri wrote the music "almost under the dictée of Gluck," in a letter (dated 31 March 1783) to Count Mercy-Argenteau, the Austrian ambassador in Paris. Then Mercy told the directors of the Opéra that Gluck had composed the first two acts, and Salieri supplied the third act's music (Mercy did not realize the opera was in five acts). Even when the libretto was published, Gluck and Salieri shared billing as the composers. Though flattered, Gluck was not foolish enough to risk too close an association with young Salieri's work and diplomatically informed the press: "The music of Danaïdes is completely by Salieri, my only part in it having been to make suggestions which he willingly accepted." Gluck, who had been devastated by the failure of his last Paris opera, Echo et Narcisse, was c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11485936 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Antonio Salieri, Carlo Zinelli, Riccardo Meggiorini, Pietro Guerra, Fabio Testi, Sara Simeoni, Flaviano Vicentini, Italo Montemezzi, Luigi Valenti Gonzaga, Michele Da Verona, Alessandro Mazzi, Claudio Bonati, Libero Cecchini. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Antonio Salieri est un musicien italien, né à Legnago dans la province de Vérone le 18 août 1750 et mort à Vienne le 7 mai 1825. Il occupe, dans l'histoire de la musique classique, une place bien différente de celle évoquée dans le film Amadeus (voir ci-dessous). Né à Legnago, le jeune Antonio étudie dès quinze ans le chant et la théorie à Venise. Son maître, Florian Gassmann, l'emmène à Vienne en 1766. Il lui enseigne la composition et le présente à Metastase et à Gluck. Gassmann est un important personnage à Vienne et c'est grâce à lui que Salieri se prépare à un avenir prestigieux. Il profite aussi du soutien de Gluck qui n'hésite pas à proposer Les Danaïdes sous son propre nom à l'Académie de Musique de Paris, avant de révéler le nom du compositeur. Maison Natale d'Antonio Salieri à Legnago (Vénétie)À la mort de Gassmann en 1774, il est nommé compositeur de la cour et directeur de l'opéra italien, puis en 1788, Maître de chapelle de l'empereur. Il se rend à Milan, Venise, Rome et Paris pour les représentations de ses opéras. Personnalité incontournable de la vie musicale viennoise de son époque, Salieri est l'ami de Gluck et de Haydn, et entretient des relations avec de nombreux autres compositeurs et musiciens importants, notamment à travers ses activités de pédagogue. Certains de ses nombreux élèves deviennent plus tard célèbres : Beethoven, Schubert, Giacomo Meyerbeer mais aussi le tout jeune Liszt ; d'autres marquent plus ou moins le...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schmidt, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss II, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Franz von Suppé, Franz Lehár, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Josef Strauss, Joseph Lanner, Hans Rott, Ignaz Brüll, Eduard Strauss, Johann Rufinatscha, Oscar Straus, Karel Komzák II, Carl Zeller, Ignaz von Seyfried, Johann Strauss III, Alois Kaiser, Karl Millöcker, Hermann Graedener, Heinrich Proch, August Lanner, Wenzel Raimund Birck, Hugo Reinhold, Gustav Pick,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 287. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gustav Mahler (German pronunciation: ; 1860 - 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Born in humble circumstances, Mahler showed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler-who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism to secure the post-experience...http://booksllc.net/?id=65174 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Carl Friedrich Abel, Domenico Alberti, William Herschel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Giovanni Paisiello, Leopold Mozart, Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Johann Friedrich Agricola, François-André Danican Philidor, Muzio Clementi, Franz Danzi, Michael Haydn, Thomas Arne, Michael Arne, Franz Krommer, Anton Reicha, Leopold Kozeluch, Franz Benda, Josef Mysliveček, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Fernando Sor, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf, Niccolò Jommelli, Luigi Boccherini, Joseph Martin Kraus, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Étienne Méhul, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Ignaz Pleyel, Francesco Bianchi, Luigi Cherubini, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Leopold Hofmann, John Field, Antonio Rosetti, Marianne Von Martinez, Alessandro Rolla, Dmitry Bortniansky, Andrea Luchesi, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Carl Stamitz, Hyacinthe Jadin, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Stamitz, Jacques Duphly, Tommaso Traetta, François Joseph Gossec, Niccolò Piccinni, André Grétry, Georg Matthias Monn, Yevstigney Fomin, Polly Young, Justin Heinrich Knecht, François Francoeur, Barbara of Portugal, Maksim Berezovsky, Antonio Soler, Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Jan Zach, John Stafford Smith, John Bennett, Pasquale Anfossi, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Giovanni Battista Martini, Frantisek Kotzwara, Vasily Pashkevich, Francesca Lebrun, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Claude Balbastre, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Johann Peter Salomon, Georg Reutter Ii, Baldassare Galuppi, Johann Gottfried Müthel, Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Johann Peter Kellner, Jakub Jan Ryba, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Karl Von Ordóñez, Armand-Louis Couperin, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Simon Sechter, Charles Avison, Józef Elsner, Jea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17914 ... Read more

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Title: Antonio Salieri and Viennese opera.
Publication: Opera Canada (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Opera Canada Publications
Volume: 41Page: 43-4

Article Type: Book Review

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