Camillaproductions, with full bibliographic descriptions of libretti and scores,
as well as library locations. Lindgren’s Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard U., 1972;
xii, 1,049p.) is the most substantial treatise: “A Bibliographic Scrutiny of Dra-
matic Works Set by Giovanni and His Brother Antonio Maria Bononcini.”See also #947.
Giovanni Andrea Bontempi (1624–1705)
- Engländer, Richard. “Die erste italienische Oper in Dresden, Bontempis Il Paride
in musica(1662).” Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning 40 (1961): 119–134.
The opera was performed on 3 November and 13 November 1662, and the
libretto was published in the same year. The opera is in reform style. Synopsis,
musical examples, and some technical observations.
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)
Prince Igoris in ASO 168 (1995).
- Abraham, Gerald. Borodin: The Composer and His Music.London: Reeves,
- 205p. Reprint, New York: AMS, 1976. ISBN 0-404-1285-13. ML410
.B73 A4.
The only English biography, with genesis and program notes for the stage
works (p.64–118).
609.Alexander Borodin: Sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schriften. Musik konkret, - Berlin: Ernst Kuhn, 1992. 477p. ISBN 3-928864-03-3. ML410 .B74 A64.
A collection of 41 essays and translations from Russian scholars. They deal
with the composer’s life, his critical writings, works, sources, and memoirs of
him by his contemporaries. On Prince Igorthere are five essays, dealing with
the text, genesis, and reception history. Worklist (titles in German), name index. - Bobeth, Marek. Borodin und seine Oper “Fürst Igor”: Geschichte, Analyse,
Konsequenzen. Berliner musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, 18. Munich: E. Katz-
bichler, 1982. 223p. ISBN 3-073970-48-1. ML410 .B74 B66.
A complete account of Prince Igor,including genesis, reception, and analysis.
A Leitmotivindex is of special interest. Bibliography of about 120 entries,
name index.
Rutland Boughton (1878–1960)
- Hurd, Michael. Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festivals. New York:
Oxford U.P., 1993. xii, 415p. ISBN 0-19-81636-9. ML410 .B772 H9.
A revision of Hurd’s Immortal Hour: The Life and Period of Rutland
Boughton(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962). An adulatory biography,
with genesis and some technical description of the operas. Immortal Hourwas
Boughton’s 1914 opera. Worklist, musical examples, index.
Thomas-Louis Bourgeois (1676–1750)
Les amours déguisésis in FO,v.29.
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