Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life

by Benjamin Walton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521870607
• ISBN13: 9780521870603
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"