Everist, Mark - Genealogies of Music and Memory

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. This book asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments.

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CONTENTS

Illustrations
Music Examples
Tables
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Gluck Reception and Cultural Exchange
Chapter 1: Gluck in Performance, 1830-1870
Chapter 2: Paris Imagines Gluck
Chapter 3: Towards 'Rediscovery'
Chapter 4: Gluck in the Theatre
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index