- Title Pages
- The Master Musicians
- The Master Musicians
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface to First Edition (1985)
- Preface to Second Edition (2007)
- List of Illustrations
- Key to Sigla
- Rossini
- Chapter One The Formative Years (1792–1810)
- Chapter Two Venice and Milan (1811–1814)
- Chapter Three Arrival in Naples (1815)
- Chapter four Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
- Chapter Five Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816–1817)
- Chapter Six Mosè in Egitto and Return to Pesaro (1818)
- Chapter Seven 1819–1821
- Chapter Eight Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822–1823)
- Chapter Nine Paris and London (1823–1824)
- Chapter Ten Paris (1824–1829)
- Chapter eleven Retirement from Operatic Composition
- Chapter Twelve Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829–1834):
- Chapter Thirteen Paris, the Rhineland, and Return to Italy (1835–1846)
- Chapter Fourteen Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and Departure from Italy (1847–1855)
- Chapter Fifteen Return to Paris (1855)
- Chapter Sixteen Saturday Soirées and a New Mass
- Chapter Seventeen Last Years (1865–1868)
- Chapter eighteen Entr’ acte:
- Chapter Nineteen The Early Operas (I):
- Chapter twenty Overtures
- Chapter twenty-one The Early Operas (II):
- Chapter Twenty-Two Tancredi:
- Chapter Twenty-Three L’italiana in Algeri:
- Chapter twenty-four Milan and Venice (1813–1814):
- Chapter Twenty-Five Arrival in Naples (1815–1816):
- Chapter Twenty-Six Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Transformation of a Tradition
- Chapter Twenty-Seven Otello and the Confrontation of Tragedy
- Chapter Twenty-Eight La Cenerentola:
- Chapter Twenty-Nine La gazza ladra and the Semiseria Style
- Chapter Thirty Armida and the New Romanticism
- Chapter Thirty-One Mosè in Egitto (1818–1819) and Moïse et Pharaon (1827)
- Chapter Thirty -Two A Lost Masterpiece and a Forgotten Favourite:
- Chapter Thirty-Three Rossini and Scott:
- Chapter Thirty-Four Maometto II (1820) and Le Siège de Corinthe (1826)
- Chapter Thirty -Five Back from the Shadows:
- Chapter Thirty-Six Farewell to Italy:
- Chapter Thirty-Seven Il viaggio a Reims (1825) and Le Comte Ory (1828)
- Chapter Thirty-Eight Guillaume Tell
- Chapter Thirty-Nine Sacred Music:
- Chapter Forty Vocal and Piano Music:
- Appendix A Calendar
- Appendix B List of Works
- Appendix C Personalia
- Appendix D Select Bibliography
- Index
(p. iii ) The Master Musicians
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- Rossini
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- The Master Musicians
- The Master Musicians
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface to First Edition (1985)
- Preface to Second Edition (2007)
- List of Illustrations
- Key to Sigla
- Rossini
- Chapter One The Formative Years (1792–1810)
- Chapter Two Venice and Milan (1811–1814)
- Chapter Three Arrival in Naples (1815)
- Chapter four Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
- Chapter Five Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816–1817)
- Chapter Six Mosè in Egitto and Return to Pesaro (1818)
- Chapter Seven 1819–1821
- Chapter Eight Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822–1823)
- Chapter Nine Paris and London (1823–1824)
- Chapter Ten Paris (1824–1829)
- Chapter eleven Retirement from Operatic Composition
- Chapter Twelve Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829–1834):
- Chapter Thirteen Paris, the Rhineland, and Return to Italy (1835–1846)
- Chapter Fourteen Times of Barricades and Assassinations: Bologna, Florence, and Departure from Italy (1847–1855)
- Chapter Fifteen Return to Paris (1855)
- Chapter Sixteen Saturday Soirées and a New Mass
- Chapter Seventeen Last Years (1865–1868)
- Chapter eighteen Entr’ acte:
- Chapter Nineteen The Early Operas (I):
- Chapter twenty Overtures
- Chapter twenty-one The Early Operas (II):
- Chapter Twenty-Two Tancredi:
- Chapter Twenty-Three L’italiana in Algeri:
- Chapter twenty-four Milan and Venice (1813–1814):
- Chapter Twenty-Five Arrival in Naples (1815–1816):
- Chapter Twenty-Six Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Transformation of a Tradition
- Chapter Twenty-Seven Otello and the Confrontation of Tragedy
- Chapter Twenty-Eight La Cenerentola:
- Chapter Twenty-Nine La gazza ladra and the Semiseria Style
- Chapter Thirty Armida and the New Romanticism
- Chapter Thirty-One Mosè in Egitto (1818–1819) and Moïse et Pharaon (1827)
- Chapter Thirty -Two A Lost Masterpiece and a Forgotten Favourite:
- Chapter Thirty-Three Rossini and Scott:
- Chapter Thirty-Four Maometto II (1820) and Le Siège de Corinthe (1826)
- Chapter Thirty -Five Back from the Shadows:
- Chapter Thirty-Six Farewell to Italy:
- Chapter Thirty-Seven Il viaggio a Reims (1825) and Le Comte Ory (1828)
- Chapter Thirty-Eight Guillaume Tell
- Chapter Thirty-Nine Sacred Music:
- Chapter Forty Vocal and Piano Music:
- Appendix A Calendar
- Appendix B List of Works
- Appendix C Personalia
- Appendix D Select Bibliography
- Index