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  1. The singing Turk
    Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon
    Author: Wolff, Larry
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the 18th century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the 18th century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This work explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804799652
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: AP 71200 ; LR 57724 ; LR 57734
    Subjects: Oper; Exotismus; Rezeption; Türken <Motiv>; Opera; Turks in opera; Exoticism in opera; Operas
    Other subjects: Osmanen
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, Illustrations (black and white)
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    Previously issued in print: 2016

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. The singing Turk
    Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon
    Author: Wolff, Larry
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780804799652
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: AP 71200 ; LR 57724 ; LR 57734
    Subjects: Opera; Turks in opera; Exoticism in opera; Operas; Rezeption; Türken <Motiv>; Oper; Exotismus
    Other subjects: Osmanen
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 490 Seiten), Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele