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Truthful embodiment of a love drama, home background, melodic music, associated with singing and dancing existing genres - all this gives the French lyric opera realistic direction, but on the other hand, the lack of high artistic generalizations, "decently" moderation, Lack of courage and daring in the production of music and theatrical problems, sometimes sugary sentimentality limits realistic tendencies in this direction.
Oddly enough, in Paris, a city with such a rich artistic culture, with so many musical institutions, instrumental, symphonic and chamber - music before the 70s was paid relatively little attention. Public interest, public sympathy is most attracted to musical theater. This is despite the fact that in Paris, Berlioz lived and worked (and it did not receive at home full recognition in his lifetime), which flourished in Paris, fully inspired art of the Polish genius - Chopin, that there in all its splendor the great pianism of Liszt turned. Despite the abundance of concerts in the French capital was not a favorable environment for the implementation of national public life instrumental music.
. In public, "People's concerts of classical music" (from 1861 dominated the work of German classical music. All this was of positive significance for improving the artistic taste of wide circles of the French audience. However, the work of French instrumental music with great difficulty, fought their way to the concert stage in Paris. This was bitterly wrote, Saint-Saens" Before 1870 all French composer obsessed crazy dream to apply his talents in the field of instrumental music, had no other way to fulfill their work, how to organize a concert on their own and invited him to critics and friends ... Few societies have been chambered in the same measure for each closed fresh talent, as well as orchestral concerts, in their program included a well-known, indisputable classic names of the great symphonic. At the time, only a man totally devoid of common sense, could compose ".
Since 1870 the situation changed for the better. |