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THE BACKGROUND TO THE 'BRILLIANT SUCCESS' BEFORE THE FAILURE OF 'TANNHÄUSER': 'PIERRE DE MÉDICIS' BY JÓZEF PONIATOWSKI ON THE STAGE OF THE PARIS OPERA (1860) (Polish Title - below)

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Zieziula G.

Muzyka

2009

vol. 54

issue 2(213)

73-101

(Ttle in POlish - 'Kulisy 'blyskotliwego zwyciestwa' w przededniu kleski 'Tannhausera': 'Pierre de Medicis' Józefa Poniatowskiego na scenie paryskiej Opery (1860)'). The prince Joseph Michal Poniatowski (1816-1873), as well as being an imperial senator of the Second Empire, was one of the well-known figures in Parisian musical life of his day. 'Pierre de Médicis' (1860), Poniatowski's opera in four acts premiered on the stage of the Paris Opera a year before the failure of Wagner's Tannhäuser, takes a particular position in his forgotten French operatic output recently rediscovered by Prof. Matthias Brzoska. The paper sheds light on the archival sources that clear up some unknown circumstances preceding and accompanying the premiere of that operatic work, and draws the picture of its ambiguous reception in the contemporary Parisian press. This case study shows how the Parisian 'operatic machine' had been working during the Second Empire, and eventually allows us to question some of Brzoska's statements; among other things his suggestion that Poniatowski's music was appreciated by Hector Berlioz (Berlioz's correspondence published in our times tells us that this praise was enforced and totally insincere)

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THE BACKGROUND TO THE 'BRILLIANT SUCCESS' BEFORE THE FAILURE OF 'TANNHÄUSER': 'PIERRE DE MÉDICIS' BY JÓZEF PONIATOWSKI ON THE STAGE OF THE PARIS OPERA (1860) (Polish Title - below)