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Rossini

Richard Osborne

(Master musicians series)

Oxford University Press, 2001

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"First published 1986"

"First published as an Oxford University Press paperback edition 2001"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-319) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A classical musician by training and a conservative by inclination, Rossini none the less broke the mould 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, in touch 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 the last decade of his life.

Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Key to sigla
  • Preface
  • 1. The formative years (1792-1810)
  • 2. Venice and Milan (1810-14)
  • 3. Arrival in Naples
  • 4. Rome and Il barbiere de Siviglia(1816)
  • 5. Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816-17)
  • 6. Mose in Egittoand return to Peasro (1818)
  • 7. 1819-21
  • 8. Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3)
  • 9. Paris and London (1823-4)
  • 10. Paris (1824-9)
  • 11. Retirement from operatic composition
  • 12. Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-35)
  • 13. Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1847-55)
  • 14. Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-55)
  • 15. Return to Paris
  • 16. Saturday soirees and a new Mass
  • 17. Last years (1865-8)
  • 18. Entr'acte: some problems of approach to the works
  • 19. The early operas
  • 20. Overtures
  • 21. Tancredi: heroic comedy and the forming of a method
  • 22. L'Italiana in Algeri: formal mastery in the comic style
  • 23. Milan and Venice (1813-14)
  • 24. Arrival in Naples (1815-16)
  • 25. Il barbiere di Seviglia and the transformation of a tradition
  • 26. La Cenerentola: an essay in comic pathos
  • 27. La gazza ladraand the semiseria style
  • 28. Armida and the new romanticism
  • 29. Mose in Egitto(1818-19) and Moise et Pharaon(1827)
  • 30. Ermione and other operas
  • 31. Rossini and Scott: La donna del lago
  • 32. Final operas in Italy
  • 33. Maometto II(1820) and Le siege de Corinthe (1826)
  • 34. Il viaggio a Reims and Le Comte Ory(1828)
  • 35. Guillaume Tell
  • 36. Sacred music
  • 37. Vocal and piano music
  • Appendices
  • Index

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