French Romantic music and literature

Author: Leon Gissar (France)
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Publish Date: 2005-10-18
Features: This book is an influential early comparative study by Leon Gissar, a French scholar of comparative musicology and literary studies, and an essential and frequently cited work for later researchers in French comparative musicology and musicology. The author has read a vast amount of historical materials, providing a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the music, literature, social and political life, and philosophical and artistic perspectives of that era. It explores the interactive relationship between music and literature from the French Revolution to the mid-19th-century Romantic period, as well as the role of music in social, political, and cultural life.