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Thalberg, Sigismond
Steven G. Estrella offers information about the works of the Swiss-born German or Austrian composer Sigismund Fortune Francois Thalberg (1812-1871). The information is provided as part of Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Thalberg wrote works for the piano, including variations, sonatas, etudes, and fantasies. A bibliography on Thalberg is available. Links to other related Web sites are offered.
The Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Paraphrases
March 2001 (cloth 1981)192 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 paper 0-253-21456-4 $19.95 s
Sigismund Thalberg
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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage
“But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses” sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.
