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Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe (Eastman Studies in Music)
Warren E. Warren E. Roberts
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Hardcover. 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. Series: Eastman Studies in Music. Num Pages: 254 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580465304
SKU
V9781580465304
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Reviews for Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe (Eastman Studies in Music)
Astounding...Unique in its historical approach, which, by confronting artistic creativity, contemporary historical developments, and socio-political contexts, provides a priceless key for anyone interested in analyzing the early-eighteenth-century milieu thanks to which Rossini became (as Stendhal put it) 'the Napoleon of a musical era.
Federico Gon
AD PARNASSUM
Takes a unique approach to Gioachino Rossini and five of his operas. The author puts the operas in historical context and argues that they could have been written only in a post-revolutionary Napoleonic age. Roberts calls these works operas of the historical present. Rossini is responding to the sociological and ideological currents of the times. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.
CHOICE
Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe is a very original and enterprising project
one, I think, which could only have been undertaken by a historian. It is a most valuable addition to the literature on Rossini.
Anthony Arblaster, author of Viva la Libertà! Politics in Opera
[A] magisterial contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between cultural and political history.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
Federico Gon
AD PARNASSUM
Takes a unique approach to Gioachino Rossini and five of his operas. The author puts the operas in historical context and argues that they could have been written only in a post-revolutionary Napoleonic age. Roberts calls these works operas of the historical present. Rossini is responding to the sociological and ideological currents of the times. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.
CHOICE
Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe is a very original and enterprising project
one, I think, which could only have been undertaken by a historian. It is a most valuable addition to the literature on Rossini.
Anthony Arblaster, author of Viva la Libertà! Politics in Opera
[A] magisterial contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between cultural and political history.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES