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Romantic Anatomies of Performance
James Q. Davies
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Description for Romantic Anatomies of Performance
Hardback. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris, the most dynamic musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe. This title examines how key musicians and their contemporaries made sense of musical and physical abilities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 29. BIC Classification: AVGC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have been imagined by history. It looks at the pianists and singers--Chopin, Rubini, Malibran, Nourrit, Donzelli, Thalberg, Liszt, and Sontag--who plied their trade in the leading musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe: London and Paris. Focusing on this musical circuit, J.Q. Davies engages with historians of culture and science in thinking about these cosmopolitan figures, whose emergence as international musical stars confronts issues of ... Read more
Romantic Anatomies of Performance takes as its subject the great virtuoso performers of the nineteenth century, examining the ways in which they thought of their own extraordinary gifts, the ways their contemporaries envisioned them, and how they have been imagined by history. It looks at the pianists and singers--Chopin, Rubini, Malibran, Nourrit, Donzelli, Thalberg, Liszt, and Sontag--who plied their trade in the leading musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe: London and Paris. Focusing on this musical circuit, J.Q. Davies engages with historians of culture and science in thinking about these cosmopolitan figures, whose emergence as international musical stars confronts issues of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520279391
SKU
V9780520279391
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About James Q. Davies
J.Q. Davies is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Romantic Anatomies of Performance
"Davies narrating incidents and tracing connections is full of animation and amusement ... a master of the anecdote and incident."
Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement
Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement