Memoirs of Rossini: By the Author of the Lives of Haydn and MozartMarie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. Over the course of his life, he wrote in a variety of literary genres and under a multitude of names, or anonymously. Reissued here is the 1824 English translation of his Vie de Rossini of the same year, which was accused of being partly plagiarised from Giuseppe Carpani's Le Rossiniane, following similar claims regarding his biographies of Haydn and Mozart (which are also reissued together in translation in this series). Best known for William Tell and The Barber of Seville, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was by far the most popular opera composer of his day, adored by his public. Colourful, vigorous and forthright, Stendhal's brilliant though somewhat unreliable biography offers an opinionated contemporary critique of 'Signor Crescendo'. |
Contents
Rossinis familyborn at Pesaro 1792 | 1 |
1813 Rossini at Venice Tancredi | 13 |
1813 Rossini at Venice continued | 27 |
CIIAP IV1813 Rossini at MilanLa Pietra | 39 |
1813 Rossini revisits Pesaroremarks | 53 |
CHAP VLThe impressario and his theatremode | 61 |
1814 Rossini accepts an engagement | 77 |
CHAP VI1LROSSiI1i at Milan continuedll Turco | 97 |
l816 Rossini at RomeTornaldo | 125 |
CHAP XlLl8l7 Rossini returns to Rome62 | 159 |
CHAP XIlI 1818 Rossini returns to Naples | 170 |
Of the revolution caused by Rossini | 184 |
1819 Ricciardo e Sommeaccount | 204 |
opinion of the relative merits of Rossinis operas | 219 |
CHAP l7 On the style of Rossinihe does | 242 |
cause of Rossinis errors in style page | 103 |
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