Genealogies of Music and Memory: Gluck in the 19th-Century Parisian Imagination

by Mark Everist

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197546005
• ISBN13: 9780197546000
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"