Some musicians of former days
By: by Romain Rolland ; translated byMary Blaiklock.
Series: The Musician's bookshelf
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Published: 1915
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Opera -- History and criticism; Composers
Work titles: Musiciens d'autrefois.
Notes: Translated from the French "Musiciens d'autrefois".
Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction: Of the place of music in general history.- The beginnings of opera.- The first opera played in Paris: Luigi Rossi's Orfeo.-Notes on Lully.- Gluck.- Grétry.- Mozart, according to his letters.- Musical supplement: "The despair of Orpheus," from Orfeo.