Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 1834–80

by Katharine Ellis

• ISBN13: 9780521035897
• ISBN10: 0521035899
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book focuses on the musical writings in the daily and periodical press in France during the nineteenth century. It covers the criticism of a wide range of Western music, from c. 1580 to 1880, explaining how composers such as Bach and Beethoven secured a permanent place in the repertory. In particular, Dr Ellis considers the music journalism of the Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, the single most important specialist periodical of the mid-nineteenth century, explaining how French music criticism was influenced by aesthetic and philosophical movements. Dr Ellis analyses the process of canon formation, the development of French musicology and the increasing sensitivity of critics to questions of performance practice. Chapters on new music examine the conflict inevitable in publishers' journals, between commercial interest and aesthetic integrity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Crosscurrents in early nineteenth-century criticism

The rise of the specialist press from 1827

Early music

The Austro-German tradition I: the reception of Gluck, Haydn and Mozart

The Austro-German tradition II: the reception of Beethoven

The Austro-German tradition III: Weber, Schubert and Mendelssohn

Contemporary music I: piano music

Contemporary music II: chamber and symphonic music

Contemporary music III: opera

Contemporary music IV: the music of the future

Contemporary music V: Berlioz

Conclusion

Principal contributors to the Gazette

Personalia

Contes, nouvelles, dialogues and other short literature in Schlesinger's Gazette musicale, 1834-46

Publishing history of the Gazette

Pseudonyms and attributions

Bibliography

Index of musical works cited

General index

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