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Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867) was a significant musical animateur of the early nineteenth century, who earned his living primarily as a conductor but was also significant as an organist, composer and recorder of events. Smart established successful and pioneering London concert series, was a prime mover in the setting up of the Philharmonic Society and the Royal Academy of Music, and taught many of the leading singers of the day, being well versed in the Handelian concert tradition. He also conducted the opera at the Covent Garden Theatre and introduced significant new works to the public - he was most notably an early champion of the music of Beethoven. His journeys to Europe, and his contacts with the leading European musical figures of the day (including Weber, Meyerbeer, Spohr, and Mendelssohn), were crucial to the direction music was to take in nineteenth-century Britain. This detailed account of Smart's life and career presents him within the context of the vibrant concert life of London and wider European musical culture. It is the first full length, critical study of this influential musical figure. John Carnelley is Deputy Director of Music and Head of Academic Music, Dulwich College, London. He holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and has previously published research on the eighteenth-century organ manuscripts of John Reading, held in the Dulwich College Archive.

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"In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required machineries consistently changed, sometimes still resonating in contemporary stagings, performance art, and popular culture. Focusing on devices (which she dubs 'Wagnerian technologies') intended to amalgamate opera's various media while veiling their mechanics, Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner's idealist theories of total illusionism. Curtain, Gong, Steam's multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production. With its broad chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of historical operatic practice as well as of individual works, both well known and obscure"--Provided by publisher.

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Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890's) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.

Music --- Music patronage --- Musical criticism --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music criticism --- Journalism --- Business patronage of music --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of music --- Performing arts sponsorship --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Higginson, Henry Lee, --- Krehbiel, Henry Edward, --- Holloway, Laura C. --- Ives, Charles, --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Holloway-Langford, Laura, --- Langford, Laura Carter Holloway, --- Krehbiel, H. E. --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles --- Ives, Charles Edward --- 19th century music. --- 20th century music. --- american culture. --- american history. --- american music history. --- american musical life. --- american studies. --- boston symphony orchestra. --- charles ives. --- classic music. --- classical music. --- classical orchestra. --- cultural historians. --- gilded age. --- henry higginson. --- henry krehbiel. --- history of music. --- human nature. --- laura langford. --- moral values. --- music history and criticism. --- music lovers. --- music studies. --- musicians and historians. --- musicology. --- turn of the century america. --- us culture. --- us history.