3.0
The Life of Rossini
by Stendhal
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 first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer.
Biography & AutobiographyMusicFictionClassicsGenres & StylesOpera
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHEROneworld Classics
LENGTH566
LANGUAGEEN
Stendhal was the pseudonym of the 19th-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels *Le Rouge et le Noir* (The Red and the Black, 1830) and *La Chartreuse de Parme* (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
3.0
The Life of Rossini
by Stendhal
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 first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer.
Biography & AutobiographyMusicFictionClassicsGenres & StylesOpera
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHEROneworld Classics
LENGTH566
LANGUAGEEN
Stendhal was the pseudonym of the 19th-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels *Le Rouge et le Noir* (The Red and the Black, 1830) and *La Chartreuse de Parme* (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
