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Four new books devoted to 19th century French music were recently released in Symétrie’s collection Perpetuum mobile in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.

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Aspects de l’opéra français de Meyerbeer à Honegger under the direction of Jean-Christophe Branger and Vincent Giroud. This volume follows a colloquium about French Opera which took place at Yale University in 2004. The various subjetcs are of very different nature: genetic studies (Bizet’s Carmen, Massenet’s Hérodiade and Debussy’s The Fall of the Usher House), presentation of forgotten works (Reynaldo Hahn’s La Carmélite), reception of an opera (Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine), relations between composers and singers (Georges Bizet and Célestine Galli-Marié  ; Alfred Bruneau and Marie Delna), musical and thematic analysis (Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole) or socio-historical reading (Honegger’s Antigone).

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Hérold en Italie under the direction of Alexandre Dratwicki. History is sometimes of a disconcerting injustice: though adulated while he was alive and glorified soon after his death, composer Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) is quite forgotten nowadays. This book is devoted to the composer’s two voyages in Italy (1812-1815 and 1821). The first part of the book is studying historical or aesthetic aspects of Hérold’s period of formation, while the second part proposes a critical edition of the correspondence between Hérold and his mother during his time in Italy.

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Souvenirs de ma vie presented and annotated by Christine Collette-Kléo. At first an organist, then a professor and finally director of the Paris Conservatory of Music at the end of a century swept by a vast artistic renewal, Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) develops through these pages his conception of music. There is no doubt that this document, unpublished until now, will offer a first rate tool for researchers in history and musicology.

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Correspondance et écrits de jeunesse under the direction of Michel Rabaud Henri Rabaud (1873-1949) is part of those French “modern” composers who lived in the shadow of Debussy and Ravel. Most of the letters of this selection were written during Rabaud’s stay at the Villa Medicis in 1894 after he was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome.

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