The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé

"The Complete Opera Book" by Gustav Kobbé is a guide to operas first published posthumously in 1919. This comprehensive reference presents opera stories alongside musical notation of leading airs and motives. Covering works from Gluck to early twentieth-century composers, the book organizes operas by national schools and historical periods. Originally left unfinished at Kobbé's death, it was completed by editor Katharine Wright and expanded through numerous editions, becoming the definitive encyclopedic account of opera for generations of music lovers and record collectors. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918
Title The Complete Opera Book
The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Opera_Book
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition
Subject Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.
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EBook-No. 40540
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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