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Paris--a musical gazetteer

This guidebook explores the historic musical landmarks in Paris. It features biographical portraits of major composers, and all their known Paris addresses and favorite meeting places, with the nearest metro stops, locations of monuments and graves of composers, information on churches, theaters, concert venues, and important musical institutions, listings of libraries, museums, and galleries holding materials related to music, an index of locations, arranged by arrondissement and by street, four recommended walking tours, and more than 120 contemporary and historical photographs
Print Book, English, ©2000
Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], ©2000
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ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780300080537, 9780300080544, 0300080530, 0300080549
42680614
Acknowledgementsix
The Scope of the Gazetteer
1(2)
Using the Gazetteer
3(1)
Four Musical Walks
4(5)
Ten Parisian Musical Landmarks
9(2)
Four Centuries of Music in Paris: A Brief Outline
11(12)
Musicians
23(130)
Churches
153(20)
Theatres and Concert Halls
173(39)
Institutions and Orchestras
212(12)
Some Parisian Music Publishers and Instrument Makers
224(13)
Museums and Libraries
237(11)
Graves and Monuments
248(10)
Musical Street Names in Paris
258(5)
Index of Locations by Arrondissement263(18)
Paris Streets Listed in the Gazetteer281(6)
Bibliography287(10)
Envoi297(2)
Photographic Credits299