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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III 1762-1769 Gluck was now in his forty-eighth year, and in full vigour of body and mind. His residence in Vienna and his constant association with men of genius and culture were now beginning to bear fruit. We know, besides, that during the ten years from 1750 to 1760 he had been an assiduous student of literature and art, and his virile intellect was now commencing to bear more strongly and more consciously upon sesthetic questions, and in particular upon the question of the natures of poetry and music and their combination in opera. It is inconceivable that he should not have been struck from the earliest years of his career with the complete fatuity of the current Italian opera, though he might well feel himself powerless to do anything to alter the existing condition of things. His early necessity of earning his bread and making his way in the world, as well as the later necessity of ministering in the accustomed way to the musical pleasures of the Court to which he was attached, would make it impossible for him to step far out of the common circle of conventionality. No estimate can be too great of the deadly evil done to music in the eighteenth century by the system of patronage in courts and noble houses; it is one of the points in the history of music that has not yet had a tithe of the consideration it deserves. A truly scientific criticism would investigate the system of patronage in its inevitable effects upon the composer's nature, and its equally inevitable effects upon his art; when we examine the character of the pacific and timorous Haydn, for instance, and reflect how much of this was due to long-continued subservience to the wishes and habits of his patrons, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that much of the out-of-the-world re...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150445156
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150445157
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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