JEAN-BAPTISTE BREVAL (1753-1823): LIFE, MILIEU, AND CHAMBER WORKS WITH EDITIONS OF TEN COMPOSITIONS AND THEMATIC CATALOGUE. (VOLUMES I AND II) (FRANCE).
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Title
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JEAN-BAPTISTE BREVAL (1753-1823): LIFE, MILIEU, AND CHAMBER WORKS WITH EDITIONS OF TEN COMPOSITIONS AND THEMATIC CATALOGUE. (VOLUMES I AND II) (FRANCE).
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Identifier
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AAI8401488
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identifier
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8401488
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Creator
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VIANO, RICHARD J.
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Contributor
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Barry S Brook | Barbara R Hanning
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Biography
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Abstract
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Jean-Baptiste Breval was a first-rank French cellist whose career spanned a period that was strategic in the history of the cello's technical development. Breval did not, however, limit his musical activities to the cello. His involvement with Parisian musical life during the second-half of the eighteenth century included composition, publishing, teaching, and concert administration. From 1775 to 1804, he composed approximately 190 works in many genres: chamber pieces, symphonies concertantes, cello concerti, an opera-comique, and an important pedagogical work, the Traite du Violoncel (1804). The major portion of his oeuvres consists of chamber work, written primarily for strings, including sonatas, duos, trios, and quartets for various combinations of stringed instruments.;Breval was sensitive to French musical tastes and accommodated its constantly-changing trends. He wrote works suited for either the fashionable private salons or the public concerts. His compositional style reflects the French penchant for hearing lyrical melodies set in a variety of textures and shared by all members of the ensemble in "dialogue". Breval wrote for string players of varying technical capabilities: students, amateurs, and virtuosi, and expanded the repertoire of the viola and cello in many genres.;Jean-Baptiste Breval lived at a time when the composer/performer could sustain a career without patronage of church or state. He composed, performed, published, and sold his music in Paris, and administered some of the capitol city's finest orchestral societies. His musical activities brought him into close contact with some of the most illustrious composers and performers of his day. He appears to have enjoyed great popularity in his lifetime.;This study attempts to establish a more complete picture of his life, milieu, and compositional style. Due to his prolific and diverse output, this investigation focuses on the chamber works, and examines Breval's approach to form, the principles of concertant and dialogue, and his contributions to the French cello school. A thematic catalogue is provided to establish an overview of his complete instrumental music. As few of Breval's works appear in modern score, editions of ten of his chamber compositions are presented in this study.
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Music
