French Music in Britain 1830-1914

French Music in Britain 1830–1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of ‘grand opera’ and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically ordered chapters investigate key questions such as:

* Where and to whom was French music performed in Britain in the nineteenth century?

* How was this music received, especially by journal and newspaper critics and other arbiters of taste...