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Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life
Contributor(s): Walton, Benjamin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521172373     ISBN-13: 9780521172370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $45.59  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Opera
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 780.92
Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.18 lbs) 366 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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Best remembered for such light-hearted works as Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gioachino Rossini produced a sequence of large-scale serious French operas after his move to Paris in 1824 which overwhelmed audiences with their musical power, and responded to the French Restoration. Rather than presenting a traditional account of Rossini's life and works, Benjamin Walton traces instead the shifting patterns of Rossinian criticism from before the composer's arrival in Paris to the end of the 1820s, outlining a type of musical history that uses immersion in a narrow time period as a way to reconceive the relationships between opera and the wider currents of life outside the opera house. In place of the comic Rossini of later memory, this book argues for a composer whose music resonated with the experience of contemporary life, and was integrally bound up in the struggle to define French romanticism at the time.
 
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