Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life And Work
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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At the crossroads of Baroque grandeur and the dawning Age of Enlightenment stood Jean-Philippe Rameau, a composer whose revolutionary harmonic theories and operatic genius reshaped the musical landscape of eighteenth-century France. Cuthbert Girdlestone's monumental study chronicles the full arc of Rameau's extraordinary life — from his origins in Dijon to his triumphant, and often contentious, ascent as the undisputed master of the Paris Opéra — while providing a rigorous, analytical survey of his vast output, encompassing his operas, keyboard works, and groundbreaking treatises on harmony. This revised and enlarged edition stands as the definitive English-language biography of a composer who was, in his own time, as celebrated and as controversial as he was misunderstood. Girdlestone writes with the rare authority of a scholar who is equally at home in the concert hall and the archive, balancing meticulous musicological analysis with a vivid, human portrait of his subject. Indispensable for students of music history and admirers of the French Baroque, this work leaves one wondering how a figure of such towering influence could have ever faded from the wider public consciousness.
Author: Cuthbert Girdlestone
Format: Paperback
Genre: Music
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of Baroque grandeur and the dawning Age of Enlightenment stood Jean-Philippe Rameau, a composer whose revolutionary harmonic theories and operatic genius reshaped the musical landscape of eighteenth-century France. Cuthbert Girdlestone's monumental study chronicles the full arc of Rameau's extraordinary life — from his origins in Dijon to his triumphant, and often contentious, ascent as the undisputed master of the Paris Opéra — while providing a rigorous, analytical survey of his vast output, encompassing his operas, keyboard works, and groundbreaking treatises on harmony. This revised and enlarged edition stands as the definitive English-language biography of a composer who was, in his own time, as celebrated and as controversial as he was misunderstood. Girdlestone writes with the rare authority of a scholar who is equally at home in the concert hall and the archive, balancing meticulous musicological analysis with a vivid, human portrait of his subject. Indispensable for students of music history and admirers of the French Baroque, this work leaves one wondering how a figure of such towering influence could have ever faded from the wider public consciousness.