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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