Die Reise nach Genf zum Musikfeste - Scribe, Eugène 1791-1861; Spaeth, A.; Müller, D. Chr. (Zürich Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft, 1827)
La Dame Blanche is an opera by François-Adrien Boieldieu, on a libretto by Eugene Scribe, premiere Opéra Comique Paris 1825
In the 17th century music in Zürich was dominated by three collegia musica: the first was ‘zum Chorherrensaal’, followed by the ‘ab dem Musiksaal’ (from 1613) and ‘zur deutschen Schule’ (from 1679). Initially they were concerned only with sacred music, but later also performed contemporary German and Italian secular music. The three societies merged in 1812 to form the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (AMGZ), which since 1813 has produced books on musical subjects in a series of ‘Neujahrsblättern’, the successors to a series of New Year collections of polyphonic pieces published by two of the collegia musica from 1685 and 1713 respectively.
Contains, besides the essay and a lithograph, an extract from the libretto of Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche' (Apollon en Helvétie : Chœur de table), and 'Der Freune Tonlied'
Keywords: Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (Switzerland); 19th Century (1801-1900); Music history; Poetry; Short story; Vocal music; Opera; Iconography; Zürich (Switzerland)