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INTRODUCTION. PAGE Rossini's Influence, and Success 1
ROSSINI AND HIS EARLY WORKS.
ROSSINI'S YOUTH.
Pedigree and Arms--Rossini's First Work--Rondo Finale--Five Operas in one Year--Rossini and the Conscription--"Un Curioso Accidente"--The Mombelli Family--An Operatic Burlesque 9
Rossini's Innovations--Rossini and an old Habitu?--The Opera at Naples--Scarlatti and his School 27
FOUR HISTORICAL OPERAS.
Pergolese and Gluck--Cimarosa and Paisiello 37
Mozart in Germany; and Abroad 43
ROSSINI'S REFORMS IN SERIOUS OPERA.
The Basso Cantante--Overture to "Tancredi"--Rossini's Crescendo--"Di tanti palpiti" 48
ROSSINI'S REFORMS IN COMIC OPERA.
"L'Italiana in Algeri"--Anecdote of a Duet--Liveliness and Laziness 57
ROSSINI'S REFORMS IN WRITING FOR THE VOICE.
"Aureliano in Palmira"--The Sopranists--Porpora and Caffarelli--Rossini and Velluti--Vocal Embroidery--Singers and Composers--Change of System--A Royal Singing-master 64
FROM MILAN TO NAPLES.
"Il Turco in Italia"--A Fiasco--The Opera at Rome--The Opera at Turin--Operatic Subventions--The Two-Act Division--Baldness of Rossini's Managers 81
ROSSINI AT NAPLES.
ROSSINI, BARBAJA, AND MDLLE. COLBRAN.
The Illustrious Barbaja--Mademoiselle Colbran--A Patriotic Hymn 99
"ELISABETTA": ROSSINI'S DEBUT AT NAPLES.
"Elisabetta"--Accompaniment of Recitative 109
ROSSINI VISITS ROME--"TORVALDO E DORLISKA."
Rossini's Barber 114
"Le Barbiere de Seville"--Beaumarchais' Preface--La Calunnia--Paisiello's "Barbiere" 117
"THE BARBER OF SEVILLE."
"THE BARBER OF SEVILLE"--FIRST REPRESENTATION.
The Two Overtures--Madame Giorgi Righetti--Almaviva's Air--Trio of the Music-Lesson--Transpositions 141
"OTELLO": FURTHER REFORMS IN OPERA SERIA.
Cast of "Otello"--Davide--Progress of Instrumentation--The Clarinet--Brass Instruments--A Solo on the Kettledrum 152
ROSSINI'S REPRODUCTIONS FROM HIMSELF.
Religious and Secular Music--Borrowed Pieces--Parts in "Il Barbiere"--"La Cenerentola" and "Il Barbiere" 165
"LA GAZZA LADRA": THE CONTRALTO VOICE.
The Magpie and the Trowel--Beethoven and Paer--Contralto parts--Overture to "La Gazza Ladra"--A Drum-hater--Operatic prayers 174
"ARMIDA," "ADELAIDA," AND "ADINA."
"Adina," an Opera for Lisbon 187
"MOS? IN EGITTO": REFORMS IN OPERA SERIA.
Emancipation of the Serious Basso--Musical Fevers--Crossing the Red Sea--The Preghiera 190
THREE UNFAMILIAR WORKS.
"Ermione"--Memory of a Neapolitan Merchant--New Music and Old 200
SACRED AND SECULAR SUBJECTS.
An Operatic Mass--Secular and Religious Music 206
"LA DONNA DEL LAGO."
Operatic Subjects--Classical and Mythological Opera--Victor Hugo on the Libretto--New Combination--"Robert Bruce." 210
END OF ROSSINI'S ITALIAN CAREER.
Departure from Naples--"Matilda di Sabran"--Rossini's Marriage--Carpani and "Zelmira"--Madame Rossini--"Semiramide"--Farewell to the Italian Stage 222
ROSSINI'S FRENCH CAREER.
ROSSINI'S OPERA FOR THE KING'S THEATRE.
Operatic Management in England--The Missing Act 254
ROSSINI IN PARIS.
Musical Feuds in Paris--Rossini in a Vaudeville--Berton and Paer--Boieldieu and the French Rossinists--Auber and Rossini's Music--"Art is lost" 261
ROSSINI AND HIS CRITICS.
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