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Not only did the libretto inexorably lead to this scene, but Boieldieu, in a tour de force, set all of the quotidian action to music.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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Thomas Cooke tried to recompose Boieldieu for playhouse listeners.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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In other words, this may be the best the French can oppose to Rossini, but its appeal lay in what was not "principally" by Boieldieu, and what was British property: the borrowed Scottish melody.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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Gazette critic, for example, admitted that the score, "principally by Boieldieu," excited
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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Scribe — the supernatural White Lady — Cooke too could no longer enlist Boieldieu.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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Boieldieu appropriated national tunes to create a score opposed to the basic values of the national stage.
Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005
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Boieldieu himself, however, insisted that he only used
Notes on 'Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel' 2005
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Saint-Loup had not the intelligence to see that intellectual worth has nothing to do with adhesion to any one aesthetic formula, and had for the intellectuality of M. de Marsantes much the same sort of scorn as might have been felt for Boieldieu or Labiche by a son of Boieldieu or Labiche who had become adepts in the most symbolic literature and the most complex music.
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Boieldieu is for the French almost what Mozart was for the German.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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The native operatic composers, Auber and Boieldieu, Adam and
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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