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Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a sepa

Music --- opera's --- muziekgeschiedenis --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe --- Opérettes --- Operetta. --- Opérette --- Opérette --- Comic opera --- Musical farce --- Opera --- Liederspiel

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This second volume of Meyerbeer's non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and later songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. Choral writing-so much part of the operatic tradition, also germane to religious music, and integral to the public music of celebration-is fundamental to the next genre Meyerbeer wrote for, the part-song, a typical German tradition. Meyerbeer's part-songs for male chorus, most of which were provided...

Vocal music --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, --- Beer, Jakob Liebmann Meyer

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Cesare Pugni (1802-70) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida. In the 1840s he worked closely with the choreographer Jules Perrot (1810-92) in Paris and in London, creating some of the most renowned ballets of the

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Esmeralda Cesare Pugni was born in Genoa on 31 May 1802, and studied in Milan from 1815 to 1822 with Antonio Rollo and Bonifazio Asioli. He made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida. He became a cymbalist in the theatre orchestra, and on the death of Vincenzo Lavigna was appointed musical director. He later moved to Paris where he became director of the Paganini Institute. There he met the great choreographers of the time and started an artistic collaboration that was to prove one of the most productive in the history of ballet. He began working closely wi

Ballets --- History and criticism. --- Pugni, Cesare, --- Пуни, Цезарь, --- Puni, T︠S︡ezarʹ, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opéra from the tragédie lyrique of Lully, Rameau, Gluck and Spontini. The libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne was derived from the medieval legend of "Robert the Devil". First performed on 21 November 1831 at the Paris Opéra, the work brought Meyerbeer international celebrity. Robert le Diable remains a legend in the annals of opera. The...

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