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Rossini€™s popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly 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 first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer. Details of Rossini€™s early life are followed by penetrating discussions of the operas, libretti, personalities of the period, and Rossini€™s own character. Besides being a fascinating account of the Italian composer€™s most creative years, and of contemporary musical events and opinions—this work is one of the finest items in the Stendhalian literary canon. Richard Coe€™s elegant revised translation and careful annotations
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Stendhal is the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, a 19th-century French writer considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels La Chartreuse de Parme and Le Rouge et le Noir.
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