Jean Marie Leclair (1697–1764)
Scylla et Glaucusis in FO,v.46.
- Zaslaw, Neal A. “Materials for the Life and Works of Jean Marie Leclair
l’aîné.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia U., 1970. 526p. - Zaslaw, Neal A. “Scylla et Glaucus: A Case Study.” COJ4-2 (July 1992): 199–
Genesis, plot, reception (with full text of a review of the premiere), inventory
of available sources. The opera appeared in 1746, just before the querelle,
which prompted Zaslaw to give this interesting summary of critical controver-
sies in French music:
Year Conservative Avant-garde
ca. 1673 Ancient music Lully
ca. 1702 Lully Italian music
ca. 1733 Lully Rameau
ca. 1752 Lully and Rameau Pergolesi, Rousseau
ca. 1774 Rameau Gluck
ca. 1778 Gluck PiccinniFerenc (Franz) Lehár (1870–1948)
Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)is in ASO45 (1982).
- Schönherr, Max. Franz Lehár: Bibliographie zu Leben und Werk.Vienna:
Author, 1970. 161p. ML410 .L56.
Lists all books, articles, and other writings about the composer. Also gives cor-
rected dates for all the operettas and discusses the place of music in Vienna
during the years of World War II. Index. - Gold, Edward. “Franz Lehar’s Operettas: An Analysis.” Ph.D. diss., New York
U., 1993. 925p.
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751–1796)
- Rushton, Julian G. “An Early Essay in Leitmotiv: J. B. Lemoyne’s Electre.”
M&L52–4 (October 1971): 387–401.
The opera was a failure at the Académie Royale in 1782 but displays some-
thing of the “continuity and complexity of thematic cross reference which we
tend to regard as Wagnerian.” Musical examples and analysis of the motifs.
Leonardo Leo (1694–1744)
- Pastore, Giuseppe A. Leonardo Leo. Galatina: Pajano, 1957. 159p. ML410
.L575 P29.
Leo wrote 81 operas, none of which has received recent scholarly attention.
This book offers a brief biography with backnotes and a list of the operas,
with librettists and premiere data. No index, no bibliography.
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