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2021-12-15 08:18:32
Meyerbeer's first opera, written when he was just 21, is finally available in a modern recording that enables us to begin to appreciate what we've been missing
Meyerbeer Jephtas Gelübde; Sönke Tams Freier, Andrea Chudak, Markus Elsäßer, Laurence Kalaidjian, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi; Naxos Music Library Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 December 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Meyerbeer's first opera, written when he had just turned twenty, finally recorded in a performance that allows us to appreciate the imagination of the workGiacomo Meyerbeer was talented young and coming from a wealthy Berlin Jewish family, the Beers [see my review of Elaine Thornton's book, Giacomo Meyerbeer and his family: Between two worlds], he received great encouragement and support from his family. Having studied with Antonio Salieri and Carl Friedrich Zelter, at the age of 19 in 1810 he went for formal lessons with Abbé Vogler at Darmstadt, where fellow students included Carl Maria von Weber (who would become a friend and supporter), some five years older then Meyerbeer. The time with Vogler was important for Meyerbeer, […]
2021-10-01 10:08:07
[…] to find a way to live both as Jews and Germans. They became pioneers of Reform Judaism, and though the Beer Temple in Berlin only lasted eight years before it was closed down, the ideas it generated would lead to the modern denomination of Reform Judaism. And what Thornton really explores is the complex balance between Enlightenment and antisemitism, as the ideals of the Enlightenment came up hard against people's prejudices leaving families like the Beers to undertake a complex and dangerous negotiation, and needless to say many of Meyerbeer's contemporaries converted (at one point at a religious event in Berlin, the Jewish families could not find enough practising Jewish men to provide the necessary quorum, so many of the younger generations had converted). In a way, the early chapters dealing with the Beer's complex negotiations with the position of their faith in Prussian society are the most interesting and […]
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