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Bizet.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composers Across Cultures SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199781614
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: BizetDDC classification:
  • 780.92
LOC classification:
  • ML410.B62.M12 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- BIZET -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- CHAPTER ONE: 1838-1857: Le Docteur Miracle -- CHAPTER TWO: 1858-1860: Don Procopio -- CHAPTER THREE: 1860-1863: Les Pêcheurs de perles -- CHAPTER FOUR: 1864-1865: Ivan IV -- CHAPTER FIVE: 1866-1867: La Jolie Fille de Perth -- CHAPTER SIX: 1868-1870: La Coupe du Roi de Thulé -- CHAPTER SEVEN: 1870-1872: Djamileh -- CHAPTER EIGHT: 1872-1873: Don Rodrigue -- CHAPTER NINE: 1873-1875: Carmen -- CHAPTER TEN: 1875-2014: Life after Death -- APPENDIX A: Calendar -- APPENDIX B: List of Works -- APPENDIX C: Personalia -- Select Bibliography -- Works Index -- Index.
Summary: Today, Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. In the new Master Musicians edition of Bizet, author Hugh Macdonald takes an in-depth look at the composer's entire life and oeuvre. Featuring the latest in Bizet scholarship, including previously unknown pieces discovered by Macdonald while assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, this biography reveals the true extent of Bizet's work as an arranger and transcriber as well as his considerable influence on his contemporaries.
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Cover -- BIZET -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- CHAPTER ONE: 1838-1857: Le Docteur Miracle -- CHAPTER TWO: 1858-1860: Don Procopio -- CHAPTER THREE: 1860-1863: Les Pêcheurs de perles -- CHAPTER FOUR: 1864-1865: Ivan IV -- CHAPTER FIVE: 1866-1867: La Jolie Fille de Perth -- CHAPTER SIX: 1868-1870: La Coupe du Roi de Thulé -- CHAPTER SEVEN: 1870-1872: Djamileh -- CHAPTER EIGHT: 1872-1873: Don Rodrigue -- CHAPTER NINE: 1873-1875: Carmen -- CHAPTER TEN: 1875-2014: Life after Death -- APPENDIX A: Calendar -- APPENDIX B: List of Works -- APPENDIX C: Personalia -- Select Bibliography -- Works Index -- Index.

Today, Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. In the new Master Musicians edition of Bizet, author Hugh Macdonald takes an in-depth look at the composer's entire life and oeuvre. Featuring the latest in Bizet scholarship, including previously unknown pieces discovered by Macdonald while assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, this biography reveals the true extent of Bizet's work as an arranger and transcriber as well as his considerable influence on his contemporaries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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