Dallapiccola on Opera - Selected Writings, Volume One.

Dallapiccola, Luigi.

ISBN 10: 0907689094 / ISBN 13: 9780907689096

Published by Toccata Press. 1987. First edition., 1987

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Black and White photographs. Very Good (+) in Very Good Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dallapiccola on Opera - Selected Writings, Volume One.
• Publisher: Toccata Press. 1987. First edition.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907689094
• ISBN 13: 9780907689096
• Binding: Hardback.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts and Antiques

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Synopsis

Brings out Dallapiccola's enduring importance as critic as well as composer.

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola [1904-75] always characterised himself as a `man of the theatre', and Il Prigioniero [The Prisoner] has been performed more often than any other Italian opera since Puccini. Dallapiccola on Opera, the first collection of his writings to appear in English, proves that he was also an inspired essayist and critic. To the directness and psychological insight of his narrative style, Dallapiccola adds probing observation of details in the critical texts that form the core of this book. Whether writing about familiar masterpieces like Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's Falstaff, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, or discussing such great but problematic works as Monteverdi's Il Ritorno di Ulisse in patria, Busoni's Doktor Faust and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Dallapiccola illuminates fundamental, previously unnoticed dramatic and musical aspects.

About the Author

Rudy Shackelford, Editor