This vintage book comprises a fascinating and insightful biography of
Gioachino Antonio Rossini, the famous opera composer who composed
thirty-nine operas and was once considered the most popular opera
composer in the world. This biography, written by the nineteenth-century
French writer Stendhal, is highly recommended for those with an interest
in the life and mind of this most accomplished opera composer, and it
will be of special interest to collectors of antiquarian literature of
this ilk. The chapters of this book biography include: "Era of the Beau
Ideal in Music", "Cimarosa", "Paisiello", "History of the Inter-Regnum
Between Cimarosa and Rossini", "Mayer", "Critical View of his Talents
and Principal Productions", "Account of His Principal Works", "Mozart in
Italy", "Anecdote for his Works", "Rossini goes to Milan", "Decoration
of the Scale", etcetera. We are republishing this vintage work now in an
affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new
biography of the author.