Only two or three contemporaries were able to compete with Wagner on his own ground. Verdi was the principal of these. Like Gluck, he wrote a large number of conventional Italian operas, which were wildly acclaimed by the public but found …

The year 1600 provides a convenient starting point, for it was thereabouts that operatic history began. It was the result ― or so the historian tells us ― of the meetings of certain composers and poets at the palace of one Count Bardi in F…

15. Opera and Music Drama １５．オペラと音楽劇 Up to now, the question of listening more intelligently has been considered solely in relation to music that comes under the heading of concert music. Strange as it may seem, music that is end…

SYMPHONIC POEM 交響詩 One of the reasons for our present freedom of form may very well be the creation of the symphonic poem. The symphonic, or tone, poem brings up the question of program music which must be elucidated first. 今日、音楽の…