# The Mentor: Makers of Modern Opera, Vol. 1, Num. 47, Serial No. 47

Author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923

Genre: The Mentor

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49932

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## Summary

The form of entertainment called opera had its origin a little more than three centuries ago in an effort made by a company of scholars and musical amateurs in Florence to rescue music from the artificiality into which the composers, who were all churchmen, had forced it.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mentor-makers-of-modern-opera-vol-1-num-47-serial-no-47-49932/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mentor-makers-of-modern-opera-vol-1-num-47-serial-no-47-49932/chapters/2/index.md)