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Article: Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera.(Book Review)
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By Stephen C. Meyer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. [xii, 253 p. ISBN 0-253-34185-X. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index.
The title of Stephen Meyer's book hints at one of the problems confronting scholars who study early nineteenth-century German opera. The period between the death of Mozart (1791) and the premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (1821) remains one of the most understudied chapters in the history of opera. Anyone searching for German opera finds a number of figures such as Peter Winter and Conradin Kreutzer, whose works are seldom performed or studied in depth. With the exception of ...