RossiniOxford University Press, 27 sep 2007 - 432 pagina's Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his 'Sins of Old Age' and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition of Richard Osborne's pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most enigmatic composers. |
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3 Arrival in Naples 1815 | 31 |
4 Rome and II barbiere di Siviglia 1816 | 38 |
5 Naples Rome and Milan 18161817 | 42 |
6 Mosè in Egitto and Return to Pesaro 1818 | 52 |
7 18191821 | 58 |
8 Vienna Verona Venice 18221823 | 73 |
Formal Mastery in the Comic Style | 207 |
Aureliano in Palmira II turco in Italia Sigismondo | 216 |
Elisabetta regina dInghilterra La gazzetta | 223 |
26 Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Transformation of a Tradition | 229 |
27 Otello and the Confrontation of Tragedy | 237 |
An Essay in Comic Pathos | 245 |
29 La gazza ladra and the Semiseria Style | 251 |
30 Armida and the New Romanticism | 256 |
9 Paris and London 18231824 | 82 |
10 Paris 18241829 | 92 |
11 Retirement from Operatic Composition | 113 |
Stabat mater Olympe Pélissier and Balzac | 117 |
13 Paris the Rhineland and Return to Italy 18351846 | 127 |
Bologna Florence and Departure from Italy 18471855 | 139 |
15 Return to Paris 1855 | 145 |
16 Saturday Soirées and a New Mass | 153 |
17 Last Years 18651868 | 161 |
Some Problems of Approach to the Works | 168 |
Farse for Venices Teatro San Moisè | 173 |
20 Overtures | 187 |
Demetrio e Polibio Lequivoco stravagante Ciro in Babilonia La pietra del paragone | 191 |
Heroic Comedy and the Forming of a Method | 199 |
31 Mosè in Egitto 18181819 and Moïse et Pharaon 1827 | 265 |
Ermione and Ricciardo e Zoraide | 271 |
La donna del lago | 279 |
34 Maometto II 1820 and Le Siège de Corinthe 1826 | 286 |
Matilde di Shabran and Zelmira | 294 |
Semiramide | 302 |
37 Il viaggio a Reims 1825 and Le Comte Ory 1828 | 308 |
38 Guillaume Tell | 316 |
Messa di Gloria Stabat mater Petite messe solennelle | 325 |
Early Songs Giovanna dArco Les soirées musicales Péchés de vieillesse | 334 |
Appendixes | 343 |
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