Rossini : his life and works / Richard Osborne.

Author/creator Osborne, Richard, 1943-
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxxiv, 392 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
Composers--Italy. --Biography.

SeriesThe master musicians
Master musicians series. ^A260201
Contents The formative years (1792-1810) -- Venice and Milan (1811-1814) -- Arrival in Naples (1815) -- Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) -- Naples, Rome and Milan (1816-1817) -- Mosè in Egitto and return to Pesaro (1818) -- 1819-1821 -- Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-1823) -- Paris and London (1823-1824) -- Paris (1824-1829) -- Retirement from operatic composition -- Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-1834): Stabat mater, Olympe Pélissier, and Balzac -- Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1835-1846) -- Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-1855) -- Return to Paris (1855) -- Saturday soirées and a new Mass -- Last years (1865-1868) -- Entr'acte: some problems of approach to the works -- The early operas (I): Farse for Venice's Teatro San Moisè -- Overtures -- The early operas (II): Demetrio e Polibio, L'equivoco stravagante, Ciro in Babilonia, La pieta del paragone -- Tancredi: heroic comedy and the forming of a method -- L'italiana in Algeri: formal mastery in the comic style -- Milan and Venice (1813-1814): Aureliano in Palmira, Il turco in Italia, Sigismondo -- Arrival in Naples (1815-1816): Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, La gazzetta -- Il barbiere di Siviglia and the transformation of a tradition -- Otello and the confrontation of tragedy -- La Cenerentola: an essay in comic pathos -- La gazza ladra and the semiseria style -- Armida and the new romanticism -- Moisè in Egitto (1818-1819) and Moïse et Pharaon (1827) -- A lost masterpiece and a forgotten favourite: Ermione and Ricciardo e Zoraide -- Rossini and Scott: La donna del lago -- Maometto II (1820) and Le Siège de Corinth (1826) -- Back from the shadows: Matilde di Shabran and Zelmira -- Farewell to Italy: Semiramide -- Il viaggio a Reims (1825) and Le Comte Ory (1828) -- Guillaume Tell -- Sacred music: Messa di Gloria, Stabat mater, Petite messe solennelle -- Vocal and piano music: Early songs, Giovanna d'Arco, Les soirées musicales, Péchés de viellesse -- Appendixes. A. Calendar ; B. List of works ; C. Personalia.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 376-382) and index.
LCCN 2006030179
ISBN9780195181296 (alk. paper)
ISBN0195181298 (alk. paper)

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