{"title":"Rosa, the Death of a Composer . Louis Andriessen","authors":"Stephen Eddins","doi":"10.1093/OQ/KBG108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OQ/KBG108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42382,"journal":{"name":"OPERA QUARTERLY","volume":"19 1","pages":"829-833"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/OQ/KBG108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61512095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Any scholar writing the biography of an opera composer must choose between emphasizing the life and stressing the music. Two Puccini biographers have solved that dilemma in disparate ways. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz focuses on Puccini the man. Julian Budden tries to strike a balance between the life and the works but ends up devoting more than half of his book to an analysis of Puccini’s operas. Despite their diVering approaches, Phillips-Matz and Budden, taken together, present a fuller and more rounded portrait of Giacomo Puccini than previous writers. Both Phillips-Matz and Budden bring to Puccini methods forged in their prior studies of Giuseppe Verdi. In Verdi: A Biography,1 Phillips-Matz showed herself to be a biographical sleuth, as adept at poring through parish registers and municipal archives as she was skilled at culling important facts from forgotten letters and faded newspapers. During decades of research for Puccini: A Biography, Phillips-Matz explored the byways of the composer’s beloved Tuscany and visited the cities, towns, and villages that shaped his personality. She interviewed Puccini’s relatives—chief among them, the composer’s step-
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{"title":"Princess Ida . Gilbert and Sullivan","authors":"Alan Fischler","doi":"10.1093/OQ/KBG105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OQ/KBG105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42382,"journal":{"name":"OPERA QUARTERLY","volume":"19 1","pages":"817-821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/OQ/KBG105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61512433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Life of Verdi","authors":"Stephen A. Willier","doi":"10.1093/OQ/18.4.592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OQ/18.4.592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42382,"journal":{"name":"OPERA QUARTERLY","volume":"18 1","pages":"592-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/OQ/18.4.592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61482936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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