exigencies. Their opera assigns distinct music to different personages.
Guglielmi did not have Gluck’s score.- Wolff, Hellmuth Christian. “Die komische Oper La sposa fedele(Venedig,
1767) von Pietro Guglielmi und ihre deutsche Singspiel Fassung als Robert
und Kalliste.” In Muraro (#2576), v.2, 123–145.
Rossini regarded Guglielmi, along with Cimarosa and Paisiello, as his most
significant predecessors, and Stendhal considered him the creator of opera
buffa. La sposa fedelewas successful in Venice, London, and elsewhere. A
German libretto, entitled Roert und Kalliste,was used for a Berlin perfor-
mance in 1775; it was something of a comic parody of the original. Compari-
son, musical examples.Guglielmi wrote more than 80 operas, about 35 of them serieand the others buffe.
The comic works are described in a Ph.D. dissertation by Kay M. Lipton, “The opere
buffeof Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi in Vienna and Esterháza: Contributions to the
Development of opera buffabetween 1786 and 1793,” U. of California at Los Ange-
les, 1995; 784p.
Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy (1799–1862)
ASO100 (1987); ERO,v.36.
- Jordan, Ruth. Fromental Halévy: His Life and Music, 1799–1862.London:
Kahn & Averill, 1994; New York: Limelight, 1996. xiv, 240p. ISBN (Lime-
light) 0-07910-079-6. ML410 .H17 J67.
A basic biography, giving correspondence, with program notes and reception
for the operas. Accuracy is not absolute; for example, as one reviewer noticed,
“Eléazar” (hero of La juive) is consistently misspelled “Elazar.” Bare worklist,
backnotes, general index.
In Karin Pendle’s study of Scribe/Auber (#462) there is some treatment of this now-
neglected composer. He was of considerable interest to Richard Wagner, whose essay
about him is in the Gesammelte Schriften(#1981), v.5, 35–55.
938a. Kaufman, Tom. “Jacques Fromental Halévy: More than a One-Opera Com-
poser.” OQ15-4 (Autumn 1999): 660–676.
He was “one of the leading figures in Parisian operatic life,” composer of
numerous successes. La reine de Chyprehad 152 performances at the Paris
Opéra in the 19th century (more than Don Carlosor Les vêpres siciliennes).
The article has a useful chronology of Halévy’s 34 stage works, with premiere
information and casts.- Hallman, Diana R. “The French Grand Opera La juive(1835): A Socio-His-
torical Study.” Ph.D. diss., City U. of New York, 1995. 573p.
See also Pendle (#2299).
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