books.google.co.uk - Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the nineteenth century.” The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact,...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Music_Theater_and_Cultural_Transfer.html?id=EcwNywz8uk0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMusic, Theater, and Cultural Transfer
