Rossini

by Richard Osborne and Richard Osbourne

Book Overview

A classical musician by training and a conservative by inclination, Rossini, nevertheless, broke the mold of the old Italian operatic order and laid the foundations for a new generation of romantically inspired music-dramatists. One of the most influential of nineteenth-century composers, in touch with many leading musicians of his day, Rossini was also the most complex of men--a mixture of affability and reserve, industry and indolence, wit and melancholy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198164904
• ISBN13: 9780198164906
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.8"