The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School

by H. Sutherland Edwards

The Great Musicians

Edited by FRANCIS HUEFFER

ROSSINI AND HIS SCHOOL

BY H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1881
[All Rights Reserved]

LONDON:
R Clay, Sons, and Taylor,
BREAD STREET HILL, E. C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAP.		PAGE
[I.]	ROSSINI'S CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH	[1]
[II.]	LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE	[11]
[III.]	ITALIAN OPERA UNTIL THE TIME OF ROSSINI	[19]
[IV.]	TANCREDI	[27]
[V.]	OPERATIC CUSTOMS IN ROSSINI'S TIME	[33]
[VI.]	ROSSINI AT NAPLES	[42]
[VII.]	PREPARATIONS FOR THE BARBER	[50]
[VIII.]	IL BARBIERE	[59]
[IX.]	ROSSINI AND THE COMIC IN MUSIC	[68]
[X.]	FROM OTELLO TO SEMIRAMIDE	[72]
[XI.]	ROSSINI ON HIS TRAVELS	[79]
[XII.]	DONIZETTI	[89]
[XIII.]	VERDI	[106]
[LIST OF ROSSINI'S PUBLISHED WORKS]		[113]

ROSSINI AND HIS SCHOOL.

CHAPTER I.
ROSSINI'S CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.

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 history of Italian music.