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Index
List of Illustrations
Key to Sigla
1 The Formative Years (1792–1810)
2 Venice and Milan (1811–1814)
3 Arrival in Naples (1815)
4 Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
5 Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816–1817)
6 Mosè in Egitto and Return to Pesaro (1818)
7 1819–1821
8 Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822–1823)
9 Paris and London (1823–1824)
10 Paris (1824–1829)
11 Retirement from Operatic Composition
12 Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829–1834): Stabat mater , Olympe Pélissier, and Balzac
13 Paris, the Rhineland, and Return to Italy (1835–1846)
14 Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and Departure from Italy (1847–1855)
15 Return to Paris (1855)
16 Saturday Soirées and a New Mass
17 Last Years (1865–1868)
18 Entr’acte: Some Problems of Approach to the Works
19 The Early Operas (I): Farse for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè
20 Overtures
21 The Early Operas (II): Demetrio e Polibio, L’equivoco stravagante, Ciro in Babilonia, La pietra 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 (1813–1814): Aureliano in Palmira, Il turco in Italia, Sigismondo
25 Arrival in Naples (1815–1816): 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 Mosè in Egitto (1818–1819) and Moïse et Pharaon (1827)
32 A Lost Masterpiece and a Forgotten Favourite: Ermione and Ricciardo e Zoraide
33 Rossini and Scott: La donna del lago
34 Maometto II (1820) and Le Siège de Corinthe (1826)
35 Back from the Shadows: Matilde di Shabran and Zelmira
36 Farewell to Italy: Semiramide
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 soirées musicales, Péchés de vieillesse
Appendixes
A Calendar
B List of Works
C Personalia
D Select Bibliography
Index
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