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German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. (Books: Tenerous Teutons).
German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner, by John Warrack; Cambridge University Press, 2001, $150.
USING THE PHRASES "German music" and "inferiority complex" within a single sentence appears perverse; but in surveying pre-Wagnerian opera it becomes imperative. Italian opera before the mid-nineteenth century is a cavalcade of great names, from Monteverdi to the young Verdi; France's pre-1850 operatic tradition, less consistently impressive, still boasts a humbling succession of notables from Lully and Rameau to Berlioz and the young Gounod (whose Faust appeared in 1859, only just after our cut-off date). By contrast, Germanic territories' vernacular--as ...
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