Offenbach

by Peter Gammond

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0711902577
• ISBN13: 9780711902572
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Successful Overview of Offenbachs Live

This is one of a series intended to provide a brief though thorough review of a composers life and works. The author successfully meets the criteria for inclusion in that series through a comprehensive, clear, and interesting story-like approach to the personal life and career of Jacques Offenbach. In addition to endowing his work with a personalized style which makes it very much like speaking to a learned friend over afternoon tea, the illustrations, particularly photographs of some of the figures appearing in the story and caricatures of Offenbach himself, add a welcome dash of flavoring to the story. This is not intended to be a study in depth nor a critical review but a work premised on agreement that Offenbach is worth knowing about. It will, certainly, stimulate one to the desire to see more of his operettas as a light hearted approach to life offered by a serious master of effervescent music with librettists who provided him with appropriate vehicles for the creation of gaiety in the audience.