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  • History of the Opera From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    IT has often been said, and notably, by J. J. Rousseau, and after him, with characteristic exaggeration, by R. Wagner, that "Opera" does not mean so much a musical work, as a musical, poetical, and spectacular work all at once; that "Opera" in fact, is "the work," par excellence, to the production of which all the arts are necessary.[1] The very titles of the earliest operas prove this notion to ... Read more

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  • The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School

    by Henry SuTherland Edwards ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Old and New Paris: Its History, its People and its Places (Complete)

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    A PARISIAN who is not rich enough to keep a distinguished chef of his own will occasionally order a dainty dinner to be forwarded to him from some hotel or restaurant; and in these cases the repast, as soon as it is ready, is sometimes put into a hackney cab and driven to the house of the consignee by the cocher, who is not unaccustomed to find this “fare” more remunerative than the fare he ... Read more

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  • The Life of Rossini

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.Born in Pesaro to ... Read more

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  • The Life of Rossini

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  • The Life of Rossini

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    ROSSINI was a very celebrated man fifty years ago. Forty-seven years ago he had already finished his Italian career. “Semiramide,” the last opera he composed for Italy, was produced in 1823; and that same year the Abbé Carpani wrote the letters on which Stendhal founded, if not the best, at least the best known life of Rossini that has appeared.Stendhal’s Life of Rossini was given to the world, ... Read more

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  • History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    The Italian opera, as we shall afterwards see, was introduced into France under the auspices of Cardinal Mazarin, who as the Abbé Mazarini, had visited all the principal theatres of Italy by the express command of Richelieu, and had studied their system with a view to the more perfect representation of the cardinal-minister's tragedies. The Italian Opera he introduced on his own account, and it ... Read more

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  • Old and New Paris : Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Volume I I (Illustrated)

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    "Paris is divided longitudinally by the course of the Seine, whose windings are scarcely noticed by the observer taking a bird’s-eye view. The river looks like a silver thread between two borders of green. These are the plantations of the quays, whose trees, during the last five-and-twenty years, have become as remarkable for their luxuriant growth as for their beauty of form. From the height of ... Read more

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  • Old and New Paris : Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Volume I (Illustrated)

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    "Paris is divided longitudinally by the course of the Seine, whose windings are scarcely noticed by the observer taking a bird’s-eye view. The river looks like a silver thread between two borders of green. These are the plantations of the quays, whose trees, during the last five-and-twenty years, have become as remarkable for their luxuriant growth as for their beauty of form. From the height of ... Read more

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  • Captivity of Two Russian Princesses in the Caucasus Including a Seven Months' Residence in Shamil's Seraglio

    by Evgenii Aleksandrovich Verderevskii,, Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    "A most interesting narrative." -British Quarterly Review 1858"Exceedingly curious, full of interest, hope, disappointment, and alarm." - Eclectic Review 1858"We heartily commend it to our readers." -New Quarterly Review 1858In 1854, rebel leader Shamil suddenly assembled about 10,000 men, and rapidly descending from his mountain fastnesses, burst through the Russian frontier cordon at several ... Read more

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  • The Life of Marie Antionette, Queen of France

    by Charles Duke Yonge ...
    A comprehensive look at the life of Marie Antoinette. Wife to King Louis XVI, she was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Her life has become a symbol of the rich continuing their ostentatious lifestyle even while their country lives in squalor around them. ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England: Mémoires d'outre-tombe (Complete)

    by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand & Alexander Teixeira de Mattos ...
    As it is not possible for me to foresee the moment of my end; as at my age the days accorded to man are but days of grace, or rather of reprieve, I propose, lest I be taken by surprise, to make an explanation touching a work with which I intend to cheat the tedium of those last forlorn hours which we neither desire, nor know how to employ. The Memoirs prefaced by these lines embrace and will ... Read more

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