Availability Prepared by Doris Pyee-Cohen and Diane Cloutier Throughout a large portion of the nineteenth century, Paris was regarded as the cultural and musical capital of Europe. Nowhere is this better reflected than in the pages of the La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, one of the most important music journals published in the nineteenth century. The Revue musicale published by F tis from 1827 to 1835 and the Gazette Musicale de Paris which was created by Maurice Schlesinger and which appeared from 5 January 1834 to 25 October 1835.
Reviews occupy a significant place in the journal and deal with a wide range of subjects.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Paris Op ra was the most brilliant in Europe. And of course its activities are carefully chronicled in the journal which regularly reviewed new works by Auber, Rossini, Hal vy, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, and Verdi, as well as performances by the most famous singers of the day including Massol, Levasseur, Nourrit, Duprez, Henriette Sonntag, Mme Cinti-Damoreau and Pauline Viardot. Th tre de la Renaissance also receive attention as do ballets with dazzling performances by Grisi, Taglioni, Essler, Petipa, Cerrito and Perrot. The numerous fine arts salons are also featured with particular attention given to portraits and sculptures of instrumentalists, singers and composers. Music in the provinces is represented as well, and, particularly the philharmonic societies, musical circles, festivals, theatres and other institutions active in Rouen, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse.