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All critical cavil (a surfeit of detail, less than elegant writing, etc.) is swept away by the fact that this book addresses a pressing and long-standing need: a full, well-researched, carefully structured biography - in English - of one of the most underrated, unfairly patronized composers of the past 150 years. While there are many good studies of Puccini in English, Massenet - arguably his superior - has received nothing approaching his due. Author Irvine (School of Music/Univ. of Washington) rectifies this situation with an opera-by-opera discussion interspersed among the facts of Massenet's life; he also illuminates the French social and artistic world at the end of the last century of which Massenet was an important (and popular) adornment. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Music historian, composer, and educator Demar Irvine earned his PH.D. in music esthetics from Harvard University. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, becoming professor emeritus in 1978. His death in 1995 was a true loss to the world of music. IrvineÆs previous books include _Methods of Research in Music_ and _Writing About Music._

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