Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

by Katharine Ellis

In an era of heightened patriotic fervor following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Parisians packed concert halls to hear performances of Handel's oratorios and Bach's organ works. At the same time, both royalists and republicans called for the re-evaluation of the once detested musique fran aise of the ancien r gime. Musicologist Katharine Ellis examines these unlikely aspects of cultural life in the new Republic as part of a broader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195365852
• ISBN13: 9780195365856
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"