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Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe (Hardcover)
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Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen,
a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and
politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe. This book examines Rossini
within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of
Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and
the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using the techniques of the
historian,and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the
five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia,
Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a
Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the
composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing
commentaries on politics and religion in a time of reaction and
revolution, and that the composer was well-informed on
post-Napoleonic politics. Rossini's comic writing served very
serious purposes, exposing the problems and complications of an age
that he observed with striking clarity. Warren Roberts is Professor
Emeritusof History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and has
published extensively on eighteenth-century French culture.
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