Robert Ignatius Letellier has specialized in the music and literature of the Romantic Period. He has studied the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer, having published a four-volume English edition of his diaries, a collection of critical and biographical studies, a guide to research, and two readings of his operas, as well as compiling and introducing editions of the complete libretti and non-operatic texts, and a selection of manuscripts facsimiles. He has also written on the ballets of Ludwig Minkus, compiled a series of scores from the Romantic Ballet, a sourcebook on the French opéra-comique, and a study of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, and edited anthologies of Auber”s overtures, ballet music, and a series of his operatic vocal scores.
86 Ebooks by Robert Ignatius Letellier
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer: Operas, Ballets, Cantatas, Plays
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a great musical dramatist in his own right. The fame of his operas rests on his radical treatment of form, his development of scenic complexes and greater plasticity …
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Robert Ignatius Letellier: Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer: Operas, Ballets, Cantatas, Plays
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a great musical dramatist in his own right. The fame of his operas rests on his radical treatment of form, his development of scenic complexes and greater plasticity …
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€67.31
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the composer of La Muette de Portici (1828) and Fra Diavolo (1830), was once regarded as one of the great figures of music, a staple of the operatic …
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€89.58
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer Choral Music and Songs
This second volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and later songs with instrumental obbligato and local …
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€81.28
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Overtures of Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
The overtures of Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), once as popular as those of Gioacchino Rossini and Franz von Suppe, were formerly known everywhere, a staple of the light Classical …
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€90.06
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically …
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€81.42
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots
On 29 February 1836, Les Huguenots, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), with words by Eugene Scribe (1791-1861) and Emile Deschamps (1791-1871), was performed for the first time, at the …
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€80.96
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Operetta
Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opera-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera …
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€150.96
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Operetta
Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opera-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera …
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€112.60
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Creation, Sin and Reconciliation
This volume considers aspects of the Book of Genesis; as the first book of the Torah, and hence of the Bible, its position is unique, especially in its provision of the foundational stories of …
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€96.28
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ballets of Ludwig Minkus
The composer Ludwig Minkus represents one of music’s biggest mysteries. Who was he? Hardly anything is known about him, and yet he occupied an influential position in the theatres of the Imperial …
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€72.48
Marco Clemente Pellegrini: Giacomo Meyerbeer
This Guide has resulted from years of research on the papers and music of Giacomo Meyerbeer, and aims to provide a bibliographical aid and point of reference for further research. The first part …
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€108.12
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer remains an enigma. Until the First World War he was one of the most famous of all composers. this Reader hopes to reflect something of the immense fame, prestige and love in which …
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€80.74
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ludwig Minkus; Fiammetta/Nemea
Aloysius Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917), famous for his ballets Don Quixote (1869) and La Bayadere (1877), was born in Bohemia, and grew up in the dance capital Vienna. He hoped to establish a reputation …
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€72.29
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Opera-Comique
Opera-comique, like grand opera, a specifically French genre of opera, emerged from the political changes and intellectual discussion that played a recurrent role in determining the nature of …
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€116.93
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ludwig Minkus
In 1868 the choreographer Marius Petipa planned his ballet Don Quixote for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and the Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus was invited to compose the music. The plot of Don …
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€72.87
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer Orchestral Works
This volume brings together a collection of the orchestral works of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. He is remembered as one of the great figures of 19th-century opera-a master of brilliant vocalism, …
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€72.64
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
The cantatas of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), spanning his middle and late life, were written in response to royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and to praise the deeds of …
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€72.49
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
The manuscripts scores contained in this collection further extend knowledge about Meyerbeer’s non-operatic compositions-instrumental, choral and occasional. These totally unknown works by a great …
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€63.62
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ballets of Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (Caen 29 January 1782- Paris 12/13 May 1871) is primarily remembered as one of the great masters of opera-comique, but also played a very important role in the …
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€72.96
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni was born in Genoa on 31 May 1802, and studied in Milan from 1815 to 1822, with Antonio Rollo and Bonifazio Asioli. He became a cymbalist in the theatre orchestra, and on the death of …
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€72.35
Ron Schleifer & Daniel Seaman: Israel and the Foreign Media
This book is a semi-biographical account of Daniel Seaman, former director of the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), and his 25 years of working with foreign journalists in the GPO, coupled with …
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€132.03
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni (1802-1870) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida, later becoming director of the Paganini Institute in Paris where he met the great …
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€90.58
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€80.96
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€72.16
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€90.45
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€72.33
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically …
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€72.82
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically …
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€72.87
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni (1802-70) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida. In the 1840s he worked closely with the choreographer Jules Perrot (1810-92) in Paris and in …
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€72.49
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable
Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opera from the tragedie lyrique of Lully, Rameau, …
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€72.13
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber Le Concert a la cour, ou La Debutante Opera-comique en un acte Paroles de Eugene-Augustin Scribe et Melesville
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€80.42
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber Les Diamants de la coronne (I diamanti della corona/The Crown Diamonds) Opera-Comique en trois actes Paroles de Eugene-Augustin Scribe et Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges In Italian and English tr
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French, as well as one of the most successful, opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although musically …
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€80.74
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014: Best Historical Research in Classical Music (Certificate of Merit).This book presents a discography of recordings made from the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer …
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€90.45
Mark Starr: Franz von Suppe
The famous operetta composer Franz von Suppe (1819-1895) was of Italian and Belgian descent, and was born a subject of the Habsburg Empire in Dalmatia. His musical gift was evident from an early age, …
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€80.42
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Romualdo Marenco
Excelsior, an extraordinary spectacular ballet in 6 parts and 11 scenes by Luigi Manzotti, with music by Romualdo Marenco, was premiered on 11 January 1881 at La Scala Milan. This unique and …
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€72.64
Janet Mellor: Bible and Art
This book explores the revelation of God’s love in the mystery of the covenant, and shows how this potent theological concept has inspired artists through the ages to reflect on the nature of divine …
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€88.06
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible as Revelatory Word
Whether one approaches the Bible from a perspective of faith, culture or literature, the power of the writing, the human situations, language and genres that make up the Scriptures speak potently …
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€96.24
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible as Revelatory Word
Whether one approaches the Bible from a perspective of faith, culture or literature, the power of the writing, the human situations, language and genres that make up the Scriptures speak potently …
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€88.06
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s Le Prophete
For a period of close to half a century, French grand opera, as exemplified by the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer and his school, was the preferred form of music for the theatre in most of the civilized …
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€117.15
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does …
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€154.55
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber’s La Part du Diable
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French, as well as one of the most successful, of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically …
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€63.50
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber’s Les Chaperons blancs
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the nineteenth century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. …
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€81.03
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ludwig Minkus, Don Quixote
The ballet Don Quixote, with music by Ludwig Minkus and scenario and original choreography by Marius Petipa, is one of the most enduring creations to have emerged from the flowering of the ballet in …
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€90.58
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
The fame of Giacomo Meyerbeer is associated preeminently with the operatic stage, but he wrote for the voice extensively in other genres as well, and produced a small body of carefully crafted …
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€72.14
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€63.63
Mark Starr: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Geluebde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the …
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€80.74
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Political Concerns and Literary Topoi in French Grand Opera
This collection of essays examines the intellectual content and structural underpinning of French Grand Opera, which flourished in Paris from 1828-1870. The genre of tragedie lyrique was renewed and …
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€345.52
Robert Ignatius Letellier: French Romantic Ballets
This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 1830-1870. The Romantic ballet had been inaugurated by Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le …
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€81.39
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ballets of Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, …
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€89.74
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His …
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€72.49
Stephanie Paige: Women-Owned Businesses
Like all entrepreneurs, women business owners face many challenges in making their entrepreneurship dreams a reality. Some of the challenges faced by women may be specific to women, due to the …
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€231.74
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Statehood and Governance in the History of the West 100-1700: From Rome to The Age of Reason
The subject is historical and cultural, and focuses on the unfolding of the big movements and people that have shaped Western History from Roman times to the late 17th century. It would be …
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€289.39
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Modern Political Theories and Systems in World History 1700-2000: From the Enlightenment to Perestroika
The history of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire (478 AD) until the end of the Second World War (1945) saw a process of discontinuity, deconstruction and loss turn, through the various …
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€289.12
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Paradigms of Freedom
The integrity of the human being made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26) has been a challenge confronting not just the theologian, but great rulers, politicians, reformers, scientists, …
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€286.76
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Romantic Movement in Germany
The history, both political and intellectual, of Europe, but especially in the German-speaking lands, will be fundamental to consideration of the pre-Romantic and Romantic impulses that dominated the …
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€337.50
Robert Ignatius Letellier: House of Habsburg and the Story of Austria
This book examines the crucial role of the Habsburg dynasty in European affairs over 700 years, from the election of Rudolph as emperor (1273) through the great Empress Maria Theresa (1740-1780) to …
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€286.70
Robert Ignatius Letellier: L’Africaine
The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is something of a legend. He had first considered the subject in 1837 when Scribe presented him with two new drafts, intended to clinch the …
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€179.17
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Les Huguenots
This huge exploration of faith, tolerance, hatred, extermination, love, loyalty, self-sacrifice and hope in despair, is the first panel of a central diptych on the Reformation, and the heart of the …
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€180.39
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Le Prophete
Le Prophete is the second panel of Meyerbeer’s Reformation diptych, his darkest and most mysterious opera. It explores issues of power and religion, fanaticism and faith, betrayal and trust, the …
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€179.13
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
The fame of Giacomo Meyerbeer is associated principally with the operatic stage, but he wrote for the voice extensively in other genres as well, including non-operatic stage works, occasional public …
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€81.39
Robert Ignatius Letellier: EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN
Giacomo Meyerbeer returned to his native city of Berlin from Paris in 1842 to take up his new position of Generalmusikdirektor to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He was invited to compose a new work for …
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€144.58
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Jephtas Geluedbe Oper in drei Aufzuegen
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Geluebde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The conflict between …
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€145.67
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Wirt und Gast oder aus Scherz Ernst
The subject-matter of Meyerbeer’s second opera Wirt und Gast, or Aus Scherz Ernst (also called Alimelek), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man …
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€109.35
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Giacomo Meyerbeer
The subject-matter of Meyerbeer’s second opera Wirt und Gast, or Aus Scherz Ernst (also called Alimelek), written in Munich in 1812, was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man …
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€144.69
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Emma di Resburgo
Meyerbeer’s third Italian opera, Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) was premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 26 June 1819 only three months after Semiramide had appeared at Turin, and …
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€90.58
Richard Arsenty & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten …
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€18.75
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ludwig Minkus La Bayadere
La Bayadere was first produced at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, on 4 February 1877. The scenario was by Sergei Khudekov and Marius Petipa, who also devised the choreography. The music was by …
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€98.99
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Ludwig Minkus and Leo Delibes
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Leo Delibes.After the success of Nemea (1864), the Paris Opera ordered a new grand ballet from …
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€63.62
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Paquita, Ballet-Pantomime in Two Acts, Grand Pas Classique by Marius Petipa; and Nuit et Jour, Allegorical Ballet in One Act, by Marius Petpa; Piano Score, by Ludwig Minkus
The two ballets in this volume, Paquita and Nuit et Jour, represent Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917) towards the end of his career in Russia, working at the peak of his creative powers. They are …
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€89.55
Richard Arsenty & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten …
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€18.69
Richard Arsenty & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten …
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€18.70
Richard Arsenty & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten …
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€18.67
Richard Arsenty & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten …
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€18.62
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible in Music
This book explores the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the …
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€129.02
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Johannine and Pauline Themes in the New Testament
This study presents themes deriving from the key contributions of the Apostles John and Paul to the New Testament. It examines the Gospel of John and aspects of the Letters and Theology of Paul. …
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€132.59
Nicholas Lester Fuller & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opera-Comique, 1824-1856
The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is known all over the world for the famous Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chretiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). However, he wrote much more than just this. His ballet …
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€150.92
Nicholas Lester Fuller & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Adolphe Adam, Master of the Romantic Ballet, 1830-1856
The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is particularly famous for the Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chretiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). He was renowned as a composer for the lyric stage. With Boieldieu, …
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€132.55
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible and the Religions of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece
This study examines how the cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, with their highly developed senses of religion and spirituality, provide a useful and even crucial context for a fuller study …
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€129.41
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s Italian Operas
Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three different and equally important eras of 19th century music. His works straddle the German Romantic school, Italian bel canto and French …
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€145.52
Nicholas Lester Fuller & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Fromental Halevy and His Operas, 1842-1862
In his lifetime, the opera composer Fromental Halevy was considered the leader of the French school; his admirers included Wagner, Berlioz, and later Mahler. Today, he is chiefly remembered for his …
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€174.10
Nicholas Lester Fuller & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Fromental Halevy and His Operas, 1799-1841
In his lifetime, the opera composer Fromental Halevy was considered the leader of the French school; his admirers included Wagner, Berlioz, and later Mahler. Today, he is chiefly remembered for his …
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€172.95
Dale Hesdorffer & Robert Ignatius Letellier: Sudden Death in Opera
An aspect of dying in opera, rarely observed or commented on, is Sudden Unexpected Death. There are many deaths in this melodramatic genre: most follow expected causes like murder, suicide, or old …
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€178.88
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine
Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugene Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccupied them both since 1838, and it had …
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€128.38
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Meyerbeer’s Singspiele and Operas-Comiques
This book considers Meyerbeer’s operas, written in the venerable tradition of song interspersed with spoken dialogue, deriving from the French opera-comique and continued in the German Singspiel. His …
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€146.55
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Introduction to Fundamental Moral Theology
This book discusses fundamental morals, that branch of theology that studies human acts and the sources and motivations of these deliberate acts. This can help the disciple of Jesus Christ to direct …
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€108.12
