Summary Á eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF ´ Alexandra Wilson
Elt to be afflicting late nineteenth and early twentieth century Italy a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided The book focuses upon two central related uestions that were debated throughout Puccini's career his status as a national or international composer and his status as a traditionalist or
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A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but freuently overlooked composer Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely f
Summary Á eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF ´ Alexandra Wilson
Modernist In addition Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn of the century Italy