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One of the slogans of the Paris Commune was: "The Art of the masses! » Indeed, in concerts and theaters poured a new, mass spectator-listener. Brass bands of the National Guard took to the streets and squares of Paris. Based in these days of artists Federation, headed by the painter Courbet, is dedicated to the professional association of art workers to support the front of the Commune in its artistic and theatrical politics, to be attached to the art of the masses.
Large reforms were undertaken in the field of music education, despite the difficulties in communication with the flight from Paris Conservatory, a large part of professors. These reforms have not been realized due to the fall of the Commune and the death of director of the Conservatory, the musician-Communards Salvador Daniel shot Versailles. Large musician, composer and teacher with extensive experience, a writer and music critic, erudite man, El Salvador immediately set about creating a new conservatory, activities which would meet all the artistic policy of the Commune. But these measures were not destined to.
Musical monument to the Commune was the "International" - the anthem of solidarity of the proletariat was the author of the music business - wood carver. Melody of "The International" was composed by him in 1888 - seventeen years after the Paris Commune. Initially, the "International" chanted the workers of the city of Lille, and then spread to other major cities in France and abroad, becoming the banner of the proletarian struggle for emancipation.
The main genres of French operatic art - the "big" opera and comic opera - in a state of artistic decline. It is true that in the theater «Urand Upera» continued to put the "big" operas Meyerbeer, French composers of the second half of XIX century wrote and placed "great" opera. But the creativity of composers (even large ones) in this area already bore epigenous character. |