Life of Rossini by Stendhal

Life of Rossini

Stendhal with Richard N. Coe (Translator)

566 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography music
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Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was not echoed in France, where he was regarded as 'an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition'. Stendhal, always an obstinate individualist, was the firs...

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