Good afternoon, Authors, Translators and Publishing companies!

Today we will tell about the next chapter “The age of tragedy (1850-1890)” of the book “The story of music” by Howard Goodall.

Main moments:

1. almost all music of the period is about destiny, death and doomed love;
2. Paris was the center of opera production and all European opera composers moved to Paris;
3. the most popular composers:
   • French Hector Berlioz (“Symphonie fantastique”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Les Troyens”);
   • Italian Giuseppe Verdi (“Nabucco”, “Stiffelio”, “Rigoletto”, “Il Trovare”, “La Traviata”);
   • Italian Puccini (“Tosca”, “Madama Butterfly”);
   • French-speaking Hungarian Franz Liszt (started Halloween style of  music, full of dark, deep, loud chords; spectacular pianist, treated as “The King of piano”; perfected a keyboard style by impressionistic technique in “Fountains of the Villa d’Este”; invented symphonic poem in orchestral music; wrote nineteen “Hungarian Rhapsodies” for solo piano, folk songs, intended a patriotic and nostalgic purpose, included czardas dance);
   • Czech Antonin Dvorak (symphony “From the New World”, was invited to New York to become a director of the new National Conservatory of Music, encouraged young American composers to adopt and develop the melodies of Native Americans and Afro-Americans communities in orchestral music);
   • German Richard Wagner (operas “Tristan und Isolde”, “Parsifal”, “Ring cycle”, had his own theatre at Bayreuth, in operas used diminishing or augmented chords to create a sense of anxiety, uncertainty, nervousness).

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