Rossini in restoration Paris
Subtitle: the sound of modern life
By: Benjamin Walton.
Series: Cambridge studies in opera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780521870603
Subjects: Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Opera -- France -- Paris -- 19th century.; Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-338) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: music in the present tense; value: 1824. Deciphering hyperbole: Stendhal's Vie de Rossini; value: 1825. 'Quelque peu theatral': the operatic coronation of Charles X; value: 1826. 'Les Grecs sont français': musical philhellenism in Paris; value: 1827. Dying for music: Rossini and Moïse; value: 1828. The discovery of the 'twin styles'; value: 1829. Looking for the revolution in Guillaume Tell; value: 1830. Beyond the Rossinian moment.