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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 Liberta! Politics in Opera *
[A] magisterial contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between cultural and political history. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *
Book Information
ISBN 9781580465304
Author Warren E. Warren E. Roberts
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g