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9781555530884

Rossini

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    9781555530884

  • ISBN10:

    1555530885

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1990-11-01
  • Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
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Summary

A classical musician by training and a conservative by inclination, Rossini, nevertheless, broke the mold of the old Italian operatic order and laid the foundations for a new generation of romantically inspired music-dramatists. One of the most influential of nineteenth-century composers, intouch with many leading musicians of his day, Rossini was also the most complex of men--a mixture of affability and reserve, industry and indolence, wit and melancholy. This detailed biography also includes a survey of Rossini's choral works, and the vocal and solo piano music written during thelast decade of his life.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Key to sigla
Preface
The formative years (1792-1810)
Venice and Milan (1810-14)
Arrival in Naples
Rome and Il barbiere de Siviglia(1816)
Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816-17)
Mose in Egitto and return to Peasro (1818)
1819-21
Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3)
Paris and London (1823-4)
Paris (1824-9)
Retirement from operatic composition
Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-35)
Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1847-55)
Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-55)
Return to Paris
Saturday soirees and a new Mass
Last years (1865-8)
Entr'acte: some problems of approach to the works
The early operas
Overtures
Tancredi: heroic comedy and the forming of a method
L'Italiana in Algeri: formal mastery in the comic style
Milan and Venice (1813-14)
Arrival in Naples (1815-16)
Il barbiere di Seviglia and the transformation of a tradition
La Cenerentola: an essay in comic pathos
La gazza ladra and the semiseria style
Armida and the new romanticism
Mose in Egitto(1818-19) and Moise et Pharaon(1827)
Ermione and other operas
Rossini and Scott: La donna del lago
Final operas in Italy
Maometto II(1820) and Le siege de Corinthe (1826)
Il viaggio a Reims and Le Comte Ory(1828)
Guillaume Tell
Sacred music
Vocal and piano music
Appendices
Index
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