German opera: from the beginnings to Wagner

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Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Map: centres of German opera 1. Sixteenth-century beginnings 2. The Thirty Years War and its aftermath 3. The Hamburg enterprise 4. Travelling troupes and changing attitudes 5. From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution 6. The Viennese Singspiel 7. Mozart's German operas 8. From the French Revolution to the turn of the century 9. French opera in Germany after the Revolution 10. New critics and singers 11. Opera in a new century: the first decade (I) 12. Opera in a new century: the first decade (II) 13. The growth of Romantic and grand opera 14. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (I) 15. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (II) 16. Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (I) Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (II) 18. Wagner Appendix: list of operas Bibliography Index.