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“jules massenet”

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  • My Recollections

    by Jules Massenet ...
    Massenet shares personal anecdotes about his life as a composer, starting from his early years at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied under Ambroise Thomas and won the prestigious Prix de Rome. He reflects on the development of his career, providing behind-the-scenes insights into the creation of his most famous works and the relationships he formed with influential figures in the music ... Read more

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    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1

    by Marcel Proust ...
    One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and extraordinarily fine translation of the novel from ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Musical Memories

    by Camille Saint-Saens ...
    A fascinating look at the world of music from French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist Camille Saint-Saëns, most famous for his Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre. ... Read more

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  • The History Of Dance - Ballet

    by Lilly Grove ...
    This vintage book is a fascinating treatise on ballet. It delves into the colourful history of ballet in ancient societies and explores its development throughout the ages from the dances of the Egyptians to modern opera. “The History Of Dance - Ballet” is highly recommended for those with an interest in the evolution of the dance and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

    by Anatole France ...
    The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (French: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard) is the first novel by Anatole France, published in 1881. With this work, one of his first written entirely in prose, he made himself known as a novelist; he had been primarily known as a poet affiliated with Parnassianism. The novel received the Académie française prize. ... Read more

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  • The Life of Monsieur de Molière

    A Portrait by Mikhail Bulgakov

    by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Mirra Ginsburg ...
    This portrait of Molière, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands.Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, ... Read more

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  • The Red Lily (Complete)

    by Anatole France ...
    She gave a glance at the armchairs placed before the chimney, at the tea-table, which shone in the shade, and at the tall, pale stems of flowers ascending above Chinese vases. She thrust her hand among the flowery branches of the guelder roses to make their silvery balls quiver. Then she looked at herself in a mirror with serious attention. She held herself sidewise, her neck turned over her ... Read more

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  • History of the Opera From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe

    by Henry Sutherland Edwards ...
    IT has often been said, and notably, by J. J. Rousseau, and after him, with characteristic exaggeration, by R. Wagner, that "Opera" does not mean so much a musical work, as a musical, poetical, and spectacular work all at once; that "Opera" in fact, is "the work," par excellence, to the production of which all the arts are necessary.[1] The very titles of the earliest operas prove this notion to ... Read more

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  • The Life of Henry Brulard

    by Stendhal, Lydia Davis ...
    The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares ... Read more

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  • Vendetta (Mobi Classics)

    by Honore de Balzac,Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator) ...
    In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois.The man stood there with folded arms and ... Read more

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  • The Art Of Ballet

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Mark Edward Perugini ...
    The Art of Ballet is a sweeping historical study that traces ballet from its earliest roots to its modern flowering, with a deliberately selective focus on France and England. Perugini presents ballet not as mere decorative dance, but as a serious theatrical art in which movement, gesture, music, scenery, costume, and lighting combine to tell a story. He argues that ballet has endured for ... Read more

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  • Great Singers: Malibran to Titiens

    by George Ferris ...
    A fantastic look at the life of nine historical singers:• Maria Felicia Malibran• Wilhemina Schroder-Devrient• Giulia Grisi• Pauline Viardot• Fanny Persiani• Marietta Alboni• Jenny Lind• Sophie Cruvelli• Theresa Titiens ... Read more

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