Rodolphe Kreutzer. La Mort d'Abel
Livre-disque. Bru Zane Label. Collection Opéra français no 2.
O genius! I succumb! I die! Tears choke me! La Mort d'Abel! Ye gods! What a wretched public! It feels nothing! What would it take to move it? […] Sublime, heart-rending, pathetic! Ah! I can bear it no more: I must write! To whom shall I write? To the genius? No, I dare not. I will write to the man, to Kreutzer. He will laugh at me. What does it matter? I would die if I were to remain silent. Ah, if I could only see him, speak to him; he would understand me, he would see what is in my lacerated soul; perhaps he would restore to me the courage I lost at the sight of the insensibility of those feelingless beggars who barely deserve to hear the buffooneries of that buffoon Rossini. (Hector Berlioz)
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Alexandre Dratwicki – La Mort d’Abel by Rodolphe Kreutzer
Étienne Jardin – La Mort d’Abel, 1810: the reception in the press
François-Joseph Fétis – Rodolphe Kreutzer by a contemporary
Benoît Dratwicki – Oratorio and opéra sacré in France (1700-1830): experimental genres?
David Chaillou – The fantastic element at the Paris Opéra under Napoléon I
Alexandre Dratwicki – La Mort d’Abel at the centre of a controversy
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publication date : 19/12/23