Echo et Narcisse, drame lyrique en trois actes Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Echo et Narcisse, drame lyrique en trois actes
  • Uniform Title Echo et Narcisse
  • Added Title Metamorphoses

Creator

  • Composer: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Librettist: Tschudi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore, baron de, 1734-1784
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: Des Lauriers
    Place of Publication: Paris

Date

  • Creation: 1779
  • Digitized: 2008-10-29

Language

  • French

Description

  • Content Description: After the resounding success of Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), Gluck set out to compose his last of the seven Paris operas, which turned out to be his final opera. Whereas Iphigénie en Tauride is often considered Gluck’s best opera, its immediate successor, Echo et Narcisse (1779) was ill-fated and quickly disappeared from the repertoire. Echo was premiered a mere four months after Tauride, and the Parisian audience was not prepared for the differences between these two operas. Although the music resembles that of his other French operas, the pastoral story lacks the dramatic intensity that viewers expected in a Gluck opera. Thus, the serene music—though it is at times quite beautiful— lacks dramatic impulse.
  • Physical Description: score (256 p.) 34 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Operas -- Scores.
  • Other: Drame lyrique

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Collection

  • Name: Virtual Music Rare Book Room
    Code: VRBR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Music Library
    Code: UNTML

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Musical Score/Notation

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • UNT Catalog No.: b1362183x
  • OCLC: 4757244
  • RISM No.: RISM A/I, G 2739
  • Other: W. 47
  • Call Number: M1500.G68 E25 1779
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc13
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