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050 00 $aML410.B18$bT95 2003
100 1 $aTyldesley, William,$d1927-
245 10 $aMichael William Balfe :$bhis life and his English operas /$cWilliam Tyldesley.
260 $aAldershot, Hants, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2003.
300 $axix, 256 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aMusic in 19th-century Britain
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249 and index.
505 00 $g1.$t1807-34: Early years and travels --$g2.$t1834: Back in London -- the English opera --$g3.$t1835: The Siege of Rochelle --$g4.$t1836-43: The maid of Artois, Catherine Grey, Diadeste, Joan of Arc, Keolanthe --$g5.$t1843: The Bohemiam Girl.
520 1 $a"Without doubt, Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was the most successful composer of English opera in the mid-nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and in-depth study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle."
520 8 $a"Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers new suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer.
520 8 $aFar from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straights on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them. Those wishing to perform Balfe's works or to do further research into them, will find Tyldesley's re-examination of the composer a necessary first port of call."--Jacket.
600 10 $aBalfe, M. W.$q(Michael William),$d1808-1870.
600 10 $aBalfe, M. W.$q(Michael William),$d1808-1870.
650 0 $aComposers$zIreland$vBiography.
600 10 $aBalfe, M. W.$q(Michael William),$d1808-1870.$tOperas.
830 0 $aMusic in nineteenth-century Britain.
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