Rossini
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Rossini
（Master musicians series）
Oxford University Press, 2001
Available at 1 libraries
Note
"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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