| Music and Manners in France and Germany: A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society Contributor(s): Chorley, Henry Fothergill (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108001904 ISBN-13: 9781108001908 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $41.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - International - History - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 780.943 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 9" (1.02 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years. This three-volume book, published in 1841, originated in a journal written by Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to 'illustrate the present state of theatrical, orchestral, and chamber music abroad', focusing on aspects that would be least familiar to an English readership. There are detailed accounts of Paris and Berlin, with prominence given to opera, theatre, art galleries and monuments. Chorley also describes visits to Brunswick, Leipzig, Dresden and Nuremburg, and performances by artists including Mendelssohn and Liszt. He intersperses anecdotes about transport, lodgings, landscapes and local customs. Chorley's incisive and entertaining eyewitness accounts will fascinate music-lovers and theatre historians, as well as others interested in the performing arts or travel writing in the nineteenth-century. Volume 2 describes his visits to the Harz mountains and Berlin. |