The Composer as Intellectual
Subtitle: Music and Ideology in France 1914-1940
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780195342963
Subjects: 20th century music; European history: from c 1900 -; Music; Music/Songbooks; France; Genres & Styles - International; History & Criticism - General; History & Theory - General; Music / History & Criticism; Music : Genres & Styles - International; Political Science : History & Theory - General; Europe - France
First sentence: On 16 December 1915, the director of the recently reopened Paris Opera displayed his political acumen to a government still skeptical of opera's relevance in wartime.