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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair

by Annegret Fauser
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781580461856
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Rochester Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press
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  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: GBP 115.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 831 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Criticism

The 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris has become famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. For the first time, Debussy and his fellow composers could be inspired by Javanese gamelan music, while the Russian concerts conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov brought recent music by the Mighty Five to Parisian ears. But the 1889 World's Fair had much wider musical and cultural ramifications; one contemporary described it as a "gigantic encyclopedia, in which nothing was forgotten." Music was so pervasive at the 1889 Exposition Universelle that newspaper journalists compared the sonic side of the affair to a "musical orgy." Musical encounters at the fair ranged from bandstand marches to folk and non-Western ensembles to symphonic and operatic premieres by Massenet to the mass-marketed Edison phonograph. A rich and vivid literature (from newspaper columns to memoirs that are plumbed here for the first time) comments about this sonic landscape, reflecting the reactions and responses of composers (Saint-Sa�ns), writers (Judith Gautier), and journalists (Gaston Calmette). Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the Exposition Universelle. It thereby also reveals the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century. Annegret Fauser is associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her many publications include books on French Wagnerism, Massenet's opera Esclarmonde, and French orchestral songs from Berlioz to Ravel.

Fauser, Annegret: - ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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