MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 04098cam 2200697 a 4500
001 ocn144596634
003 OCoLC
005 20220707190149.0
008 070604s2007 enkabcf b 001 0beng
040 $aUKM$beng$cUKM$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dTXA$dWAU$dVP@$dUBY$dCUY$dBAKER$dGEBAY$dAU@$dSTF$dOCLCQ$dBDX$dOCLCO$dUWO$dOCLCA$dOCLCF$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dS3O$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dAVA$dDHA$dOCLCA$dOCLCQ$dGILDS$dUKMGB$dOCLCQ$dOCL$dOCLCO
015 $aGBA745662$2bnb
016 7 $a013767702$2Uk
019 $a271580539$a1008424147
020 $a9781840468434$q(hbk.)
020 $a1840468432$q(hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)144596634$z(OCoLC)271580539$z(OCoLC)1008424147
042 $aukblcatcopy
043 $ae-fr---
050 4 $aML420.V36$bS84 2007
082 04 $a782.1092$222
100 1 $aSteen, Michael.
245 10 $aEnchantress of nations :$bPauline Viardot - soprano, muse and lover /$cMichael Steen.
260 $aThriplow :$bIcon,$c2007.
300 $axv, 543 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 503-510) and index.
520 1 $a"She was among 'the most brilliant dramatic stars of our time', according to Franz Liszt, and billed as 'the most talked of opera singer in Europe'. Dickens - reduced to tears by her singing - regarded her as 'one of the greatest actresses of any time'. Liszt also declared that, with Pauline Viardot, the world had finally found a woman composer of genius." "Enchantress of Nations is a lavish biography of this amazing woman whose life spanned most of the 19th century; and it also weaves a rich tapestry of music and literature in France, England and Russia. Michael Steen sympathetically and sensitively explores the passionate 40-year love-affair between Viardot and Ivan Turgenev, the great Russian novelist, as well as her stormy friendship with Charles Gounod, the celebrated French composer. We also meet George Sand, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky; Rossini, Berlioz, Chopin, and Liszt, Saint-Saens, Faure and the other Paris-based composers, artists and singers of the period." "Steen recounts the back-stage bitchiness, robbery, duels and violence of Viardot's life and times. Among much else, we read of the unhappiness experienced by the progeny of successful parents - the life of Viardot's eldest child was blighted by a catlogue of miseries."--Jacket.
600 10 $aViardot-García, Pauline,$d1821-1910.
650 0 $aMezzo-sopranos$zFrance$vBiography.
650 0 $aComposers$zFrance$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen composers$zFrance$vBiography.
650 6 $aMezzo-sopranos (Chanteurs)$zFrance$vBiographies.
650 6 $aCompositeurs$zFrance$vBiographies.
650 6 $aCompositrices$zFrance$vBiographies.
600 17 $aViardot-García, Pauline,$d1821-1910.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00006349
650 7 $aComposers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00871620
650 7 $aMezzo-sopranos.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01019279
650 7 $aWomen composers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01177510
651 7 $aFrance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204289
600 17 $aViardot-García, Pauline.$2swd
655 4 $aBiography.
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSteen, Michael.$tEnchantress of nations.$dThriplow : Icon, 2007$w(OCoLC)654970709
938 $aBaker & Taylor$bBKTY$c40.00$d30.00$i1840468432$n0007351171$sactive
938 $aBrodart$bBROD$n08997624$c$40.00
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0007351171
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n100473858
029 1 $aAU@$b000042559861
029 1 $aAU@$b000042795122
029 1 $aGEBAY$b10263152
029 1 $aNLNZL$b9912878953502836
029 1 $aNZ1$b11437636
029 1 $aNZ1$b1287895
029 1 $aUKBOR$b108827194
029 1 $aUKMDD$b1840468432
029 1 $aUKMGB$b013767702
029 1 $aUNITY$b108827194
994 $aZ0$bIME
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN IME - 109 OTHER HOLDINGS