Published 2023
“…Ultimately, the aim of this project is to re-establish Delsarte’s aesthetic system on sound epistemological and methodological foundations, to show that the system is based on both medieval Aristotelian-Scholasticism and nineteenth-century French Spiritualist Realism, that the “Delsarte system” is actually a musical system par excellence, and that the system played a much more significant role in the history of French
Romantic musical aesthetics and the evolution of nineteenth-century opera more generally than has hitherto been assumed.…”
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