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| Author / Creator: | Osborne, Richard. |
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| Imprint: | London : J.M. Dent, 1986. |
| Description: | 330 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Master musicians series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/782233 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Key to sigla
- Preface
- 1. The formative years (1792-1810)
- 2. Venice and Milan (1810-14)
- 3. Arrival in Naples
- 4. Rome and Il barbiere de Siviglia(1816)
- 5. Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816-17)
- 6. Mose in Egitto and return to Peasro (1818)
- 7. 1819-21
- 8. Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3)
- 9. Paris and London (1823-4)
- 10. Paris (1824-9)
- 11. Retirement from operatic composition
- 12. Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-35)
- 13. Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1847-55)
- 14. Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-55)
- 15. Return to Paris
- 16. Saturday soirees and a new Mass
- 17. Last years (1865-8)
- 18. Entr'acte: some problems of approach to the works
- 19. The early operas
- 20. Overtures
- 21. Tancredi: heroic comedy and the forming of a method
- 22. L'Italiana in Algeri: formal mastery in the comic style
- 23. Milan and Venice (1813-14)
- 24. Arrival in Naples (1815-16)
- 25. Il barbiere di Seviglia and the transformation of a tradition
- 26. La Cenerentola: an essay in comic pathos
- 27. La gazza ladra and the semiseria style
- 28. Armida and the new romanticism
- 29. Mose in Egitto(1818-19) and Moise et Pharaon(1827)
- 30. Ermione and other operas
- 31. Rossini and Scott: La donna del lago
- 32. Final operas in Italy
- 33. Maometto II(1820) and Le siege de Corinthe (1826)
- 34. Il viaggio a Reims and Le Comte Ory(1828)
- 35. Guillaume Tell
- 36. Sacred music
- 37. Vocal and piano music
- Appendices
- Index