Memoirs of Rossini
By the Author of the Lives of Haydn and Mozart

This 1824 English translation of a colourful, vigorous and forthright biography gives Stendhal's contemporary critique of the acclaimed opera composer.

Stendhal (Author)

9781108063791, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 August 2013

336 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg

Marie-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'.

Preface
Note by the translator
Introduction
1. Rossini's family
2. Rossini at Venice
3. Rossini at Venice (cont.)
4. Rossini at Milan
5. Rossini revisits Pesaro
6. The impressario and his theatre
7. Rossini accepts an engagement at Milan
8. Rossini at Milan
9. Rossini accepts an engagement at Naples
10. Rossini at Rome
11. Rossini returns to Naples
12. Rossini returns to Rome
13. Rossini returns to Naples
14. Of the revolution caused by Rossini in song
15. Ricciardo e Zoraide
16. Rossini goes to Milan
17. On the style of Rossini
18. Opinions of Rossini relative to contemporary composers
A chronological list of Rossini's works.

Subject Areas: Baroque music [c 1600 to c 1750 AVGC3]