Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life - Couverture rigide

Walton, Benjamin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521870607 ISBN 13 : 9780521870603

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Benjamin Walton is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Jesus College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521870607
• ISBN 13: 9780521870603
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie