Books that include
discussions of Victorian
English opera
Books about those involved
in Victorian English opera
Books that include
discussions on Victorian
English opera
in Britain and
Ireland
Biddlecombe, George.
English opera from 1834 to
1864 with particular
reference to the works of
Michael Balfe. (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1994).
Caldwell, John. The
Oxford History of English
Music. Volume II. (Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
1999).
Cecil, George. The
History of Opera in England.
(Taunton: Barnicott &
Pearce, 1930).
Davey, Henry. History of
English Music. (London: J.
Curwen & Sons, 1895).
Day, James. Englishness
in Music. (London: Thames
Publishing, 1999).
Dlderiksen,
Gabriella. Repertory and
Rivalry: Opera at the Second
Covent Garden Theatre, 1830
to 1856. (King's College,
London: PhD thesis, June
1997). Available at
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/2936272/
266161.pdf
[accessed November 1, 2013]
Eden, David. Sullivan's
Ivanhoe. (Saffron Walden,
UK: Sir Arthur Sullivan
Society, 2007).
Forsyth, Cecil. Music and
Nationalism. (London:
Macmillan & Company Ltd.,
1911).
Fuller Maitland, J.A.
English Music in the XIX
Century. (London: Grant
Richards, 1902).
Goddard, Joseph. The rise
and development of
opera. (London: W. Reeves,
1911).
Griffel, Margaret Ross.
Operas in English: A
dictionary. (Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood
Press, 1999).
Hoppen, K.Theodore. The
Mid-Victorian Generation,
1846-1886. The New Oxford
History of England. (Oxford:
Clarendon Press,1998).
Hueffer, Francis. Half a
Century of Music in England.
(London: Chapman and Hall,
1889).
Klein, Herman. The Golden
Age of Opera. (New York: De
Capo, 1979).
Parry, C. Hubert H. Style
in Musical Art. (Oxford: The
Clarendon Press, 1900).
Rice, C. London Theatre
in the 1830's. (London:
Society For Theatre
Research, 1950).
Rodmell, Paul. Opera in
the British Isles,
1875-1918. (Farnham, UK:
Ashgate Publishing Ltd.,
2013)
Sadie, Stanley, ed. The
New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians. 2nd
ed., (London: Macmillan
Publishers Ltd., 2001). It
is also available online at
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo
Samson, Jim, ed. The
Cambridge History of
Nineteenth Century Music,
(Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002).
Sawyer, F.J.. "English
Opera after Purcell" in
English Music. ed. Frederick
J. Crowest, pp. 264-292.
(London: The Walter Scott
Publishing Co. Ltd., 1906).
Smith, Arnold Ian.
The Essence of Victorian Opera: The Unheroic and the Heroic Middle-Class Tastes and Mores
(Edwin Mellen
Press, 2014). Smith puts
forward the thesis that the
lack of impact and
persistence of English opera
in the Victorian era was
essentially due to the
influence of middle class
morality that shunned the
heroic and overtly
emotional.
Stradling, Robert and
Hughes, Meirion. The English
Musical Renaissance,
1860-1940. (London: Routledge, 1993).
Taruskin, Richard. Music
in the Nineteenth Century.
(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010). Part of the
Oxford History of Western
Music.
Temperley, Nicholas, ed..
The Romantic Age, 1800-1914.
(London: The Athlone Press,
1981), reissued as The
Blackwell History of Music
in Britain, Vol. 5, (Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1988).
Temperley, Nicholas, ed.
The Lost Chord. (Bloomington
and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1989.
The British Music
Society. British Opera in
Retrospect. (Upminster,
Essex, UK: The British Music
Society, 1985).
Walker, Ernest. History
of Music in England.
(Oxford: The Clarendon
Press, 1907).
White, Eric.W. The
History of English Opera.
(London: Faber & Faber,
1983).
Books by or about those
involved in Victorian
English opera
in Britain and
Ireland
Banister, Henry C. George
Alexander Macfarren: his
life, works and
influence.(London: George
Bell and Sons, 1891).
Barnett, John F.
Musical Reminiscences and Impressions, (London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1906).
Barrett, William M.
Balfe, his life and
work.(London: William Reeves
Bookseller Ltd., 1883).
Bledsoe, Robert Terrell.
Henry Fothergill Chorley.
(Aldershot, UK: Ashgate
Publishing Ltd., 1998)
Bunn, Alfred. The Stage:
both before and behind the
curtain. (London: Richard
Bentley, 1840).
Clinton, Larry Stephen.
The Terrible Fitzball: The
Melodrammatist of the
Macabre. (Bowling Green,
Ohio: Bowling Green State
University Popular Press,
1993).
Cox, John E. Musical
Recollections of the past
half century. Volumes 1 & 2.
(London:Tinsley Brothers,
1872).
Davison, Henry, ed. From
Mendelssohn to Wagner:
Memoirs of J.W. Davison.
(London: W.M.Reeves, 1912).
Disher, Maurice Willson.
Victorian Song. (London,
Phoenix House Ltd., 1955) - includes
a chapter on Bunn and Fitzball.
Fitzball, Edward. Thirty
Five Years of a Dramatic
Author's Life. (London: T.C.
Newby, 1859).
Gänzl, Kurt.
Victorian Vocalists, (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017). A collection of lively
biographies of 100 Victorian singers from different
countries and backgrounds but all of whom have some
connection through singing Italian or English opera in London.
The singers covered are listed
here.
Gratton Flood, W.H.
William Vincent Wallace.
(Waterford: The Waterford
News, 1912).
Goulden, John,
Michael Costa: England's
First Conductor (London
: Routledge, 2015)
Jacobs, Arthur. Arthur
Sullivan: A Victorian
Musician (Portland: Amadeus
Press, 1992).
Kenney, Charles L. A
Memoir of Michael William
Balfe. (New York: Da Capo
Press, 1978).
Lamb, Andrew. William
Vincent Wallace. (Croydon,
UK: Fullers Wood Press,
2012).
Pearce, Charles E. Sims
Reeves : fifty years of
music in England (London:
Stanley Paul & Co., 1924).
Phelan, Robert. William
Vincent Wallace. (Waterford:
Celtic Publications, 1994).
Reeves, Sims. My Jubilee.
(London: The London Music
Publishing Co. and Simpkin
Marshall & Co., 1888).
Reeves, Sims. Sims
Reeves, His Life and
Recollections. (London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. and
The London Music Publishing
Co., 1888).
Reid, Charles. The
Music Monster. (London:
Quartet Books Ltd., 1984).
Book on the life and
influence of J.W. Davison,
music critic of The
Times and editor of
The Musical World.
Rogers, Clara Kathleen.
Memories of a Musical
Career. (Norwood,
Massachusetts: Plimpton
Press, 1932).
Rogers, Clara Kathleen.
The Story of Two Lives.
(Norwood, Massachusetts:
Plimpton Press, 1932).
Rosenthal, Harold, ed..
The Mapleson Memoirs.
(London: Putnam, 1966).
Santley, Charles. Student
and Singer. (London: Edward
Arnold, 1893).
Spark, William. Musical
reminiscences : past and
present. (London: Simpkin,
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent &
Co., 1892).
Spark, William. Musical
memories. (London: W.Reeves,
19__).
St. Leger, Heywood J.
Reminiscences of Balfe.
(London: Andrew Nimmo, 1871
)
Sullivan, Herbert and
Newman Flower. Sir Arthur
Sullivan. (London: Cassell
and Company Ltd.,1927).
Taylor, Benedict.
Arthur Sullivan: A Musical
Reappraisal. (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017)
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The Boydell Press has published
Musicians of Bath and
Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his Family, edited by Nicholas Temperley.
It includes considerable material on Loder's operas and opera life in general at this time. See here.
A CD of Loder's piano music played by Ian Hobson is available on Toccato Classics (TOCC0322).
The booklet with an excellent introductory article by Nicholas Temperley is available here.
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Timms, Susie.
Mapleson. (London:
Bezazzy Publishing, 2007).
Tyldesley, William.
Michael William Balfe: his
life and English operas. (Aldershot,
UK: Ashgate Publishing,
2003).
Walsh, Basil. Michael W.
Balfe. (Dublin: Irish
Academic Press, 2008).
Willis, Nathaniel P.
Memoranda of the life of
Jenny Lind. (Philadelphia:
Robert E. Peterson, 1851).
Includes a short chapter on
Julius Benedict.
Young, Percy M. Sir
Arthur Sullivan.
(London: J.M.Dent & Sons
Ltd., 1971)
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