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1 juin 2017
- handle: 10670/1.6evzr6
- isbn: 9781783742134
- eisbn: 9782821881648
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Massimo Zicari, « 8. Il trovatore (1855) », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.6evzr6
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No sooner had 1855 begun than the critic of The Musical World engaged in a discussion that challenged his readers and called attention to the works and writings of Richard Wagner. Wagner had been recently invited to succeed Michael Costa as conductor at the Philharmonic Society, and his arrival was imminent. All of musical Europe had reacted badly to his Judenthum in der Musik, in which he pronounced the music of Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn a sham; wherever the names of these composers were res...