Rossini
Subtitle: his life and works
By: Richard Osborne.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The master musicians; Master musicians series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780195181296
Subjects: Rossini, Gioacchino, -- 1792-1868; Composers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Studies the social, cultural, and political spheres that affected the lives and works of approximately 50 composers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-382) and index.
Table of contents: title: The formative years (1792-1810); title: Venice and Milan (1811-1814); title: Arrival in Naples (1815); title: Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816); title: Naples, Rome and Milan (1816-1817); title: Mosè in Egitto and return to Pesaro (1818); title: 1819-1821; title: Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-1823); title: Paris and London (1823-1824); title: Paris (1824-1829); title: Retirement from operatic composition; title: Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-1834):  Stabat mater, Olympe Pélissier, and Balzac; title: Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1835-1846); title: Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-1855); title: Return to Paris (1855); title: Saturday soirées and a new Mass; title: Last years (1865-1868); title: Entr'acte: some problems of approach to the works; title: The early operas (I): Farse for Venice's Teatro San Moisè; title: Overtures