Category: Biographies
A contemporary of Cimarosa and of Paisiello, his predecessors, but not, except at the very outset of his career, his models, and of Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi, his successors, and in an artistic sense his followers, Rossini is a central figure in the nineteenth-century hist...
GUISEPPE VERDI, the successor at once of Bellini and of Donizetti, but whose energetic style bears a far greater resemblance to that of Donizetti in his later works (_Maria di R...
12. CHAPTER XII.Donizetti, Rossini's immediate successor but not supplanter, composed from sixty to seventy operas ("_c'est beaucoup" dirait_ Candide) of which to this day three at least ("_c'e...
1. CHAPTER I.A contemporary of Cimarosa and of Paisiello, his predecessors, but not, except at the very outset of his career, his models, and of Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi, his successors...
11. CHAPTER XI.When in 1823, the year of _Semiramide's_ being produced at Venice, Rossini started with his wife, the former Mdlle. Colbran, for Paris--whence he made his way to London, returni...
7. CHAPTER VII._Torvaldo e Dorliska_ was followed, after but a short interval, by _Il Barbiere_, for which a contract was signed the very day, Dec. 26, on which _Torvaldo_ was brought out. The...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Rossini did not bring out his _Barber_ without addressing a few words of explanation, if not of apology, to the public; and by way of disclaiming all idea of entering into rival...
5. CHAPTER V.The year after the production of _Tancredi_, Rossini, in 1814, brought out _Aureliano_, which was not successful. It contained, however, at least one piece of music which the co...
3. CHAPTER III._Tancredi_ was Rossini's first serious opera, and the first opera by which his name became known throughout Europe. In this work, too, we find indicated, if not fully carried ou...
6. CHAPTER VI.Barbaja, the ex-waiter at the Ridotto of the San Carlo Theatre, was director of the San Carlo itself, and almost at the height of his glory, which Rossini was so much to increas...
2. CHAPTER II.Rossini had already written two operas in 1812, and he was destined in this fertile year to produce three more: two at Venice, _La Scala di Seta_ and _L'Occasione fa il Ladro_;...
10. CHAPTER X.In 1816, Rossini brought out at the San Carlo, of Naples, the second of his serious operas, or at least the second of those which were destined to make a mark: _Otello_. This wo...
4. CHAPTER IV.To amateurs of the present day its melodies appear of old-fashioned, or at least of antique cast. The recitatives seem long, and they are interminable compared with those by whi...
9. CHAPTER IX.No composer has written more lively, more graceful comedy music than Rossini. But, except _Il Figlio per Azzardo_, with its high notes for low voices, its low voices for high no...
14. Part II. (6 coloured plates), 16_s_.; Part III., 6_s_._Sugar Beet (The)_. Including a History of the Beet Sugar Industry in Europe, Varieties of the Sugar Beet, Examination, Soils, Tillage, Seeds and Sowing, Yield and Cost of Culti...
15. Part I., The Grammar. Small post 8vo, cloth, 2_s_. 6_d_. Part II. The[3] M. Azevedo (_G. Rossini, sa Vie et ses OEuvres_, par A. Azevedo) says that "Rossini, consulted as to the correctness of these figures, thought there must be an error of 100...