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Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Master Musicians Series
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Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one
of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great
nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39
operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed
Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France.
His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37,
was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In
reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses
were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in
1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of
twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing
again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian
summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his
'Sins of Old Age' and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe
solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless
amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The
Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years,
until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of
re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original
1985 edition of Richard Osborne's pioneering and widely acclaimed
Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the
complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have
been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well
advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including
250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in
progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and
performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed
portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most
enigmatic composers.
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