Rossini - His Life and Works (Electronic book text, 2nd Revised edition)

List of Illustrations. Key to Sigla. Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. The formative years (1792-1810). 2. Venice and Milan (1811-14). 3. Arrival in Naples (1815). 4. Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816). 5. Naples, Rome and Milan (1816-17). 6 Mose in Egitto and Return to Pesaro (1818). 7. 1819-21. 8. Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3). 9. Paris and London (1823-4). 10 Paris (1824-9). 11. Retirement from operatic composition. 12. Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-34), Stabat mater, Olympe Pd'elissier, and Balzac. 13. Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1835-46). 14. Times of Barricades and Assassinations, Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-55). 15. Return to Paris (1855). 16. Saturday soirees and a New Mass. 17. Last Years (1865-8). 18. Entr'acte: Some Problems of Approach to the Works. 19. The Early Operas (I): Farse for Venice's Teatro San Moisde. 20. Overtures. 21. The Early Operas (ii): Demetrio e Polibio, L'equivoco stravagante, Ciro in Babilonia, La Pieta del Paragone. 22. Tancredi: Heroic Comedy and the Forming of a Method. 23. L'italiana in Algeri: Formal Mastery in the Comic Style. 24. Milan and Venice (1813-14), Aureliano in Palmira, Il turco in Italia, Sigismondo. 25. Arrival in Naples (1815-16), Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, La gazzetta. 26. Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Transformation of a Tradition. 27. Otello and the Confrontation of Tragedy. 28. La Cenerentola: an Essay in Comic Pathos. 29. La Gazza Ladra and the Semiseria Style. 30. Armida and the New Romanticism. 31. Mose in Egitto (1818-19) and Moise et Pharaon (1827). 32. A lost Masterpiece and a Forgotten Favorite: Ermione, and Ricciardo e Zoraide. 33. Rossini and Scott: La Donna del Lago. 34. Maometto II (1820) and Le Siege de Corinth (1826). 35. Back from the Shadows: Matilde di Shabran and Zelmira. 36. Farewell to Italy: Semiramid. 37. Il viaggio a Reims (1825) and Le Comte Ory (1828). 38. Guillaume Tell. 39. Sacred Music, Messa di Gloria, Stabat mater, Petite Messe Solennelle. 40. Vocal and Piano Music, Early Songs, Giovanna d'Arco, Les soirees Musicales, Peches de Vieillesse. Appendices. A: Calendar. B: List of works. C: Personalia. D: Select bibliography. Inde