Salons, Singers and Songs

Music! It is the great pleasure of this city, the great occupation of the drawing-rooms, which have banished politics, and which have renounced literature, from ennui.

Autorentext

David Tunley

Inhalt

Contents: Introduction; Musical Paris; The salons and their music; Singers in the salons; The all-pervasive romance; The romance and Romanticism; Paris discovers the songs of Schubert; Romance into Mélodie; Reaching out to full bloom; Postscript; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.