An Introduction to Operatic Fantasies
While transcriptions for certain solo instruments of popular operatic arias and instrumental sections had been around since the late seventeenth century (i.e., early French opera transcriptions for organ), the widespread practice of operatic transcriptions (often called “fantasies,” as they are here) intensified considerably across Europe as the Romantic era took shape in the early 1800s.…
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