Rossini

Richard Osborne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2001 | 3rd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-816490-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on biographical and musicological material, this book examines Rossini's entire operatic output of thirty-nine operas, his choral works, and vocal and solo piano music. Rossini's complex personality, his relations with many leading musicians, and his influence and reputation are also discussed.

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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.

Autor

Richard Osborne is an acclaimed Rossini scholar, music critic and broadcaster, author of Conversations with Karajan (OUP 1991), Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music (Chatto & Windus 1998), and Till I End My Song. English Music and Musicians 1440-1940: A Perspective from Eton (Cygnet Press 2002).

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2001
• Zusatzinfo: 12pp halftones
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• ISBN-10: 0-19-816490-4 / 0198164904
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816490-6 / 9780198164906
• Zustand: Neuware