Rossini in Restoration Paris

Benjamin Walton is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Jesus College.

• List of illustrations and note on translations; List of music examples; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: music in the present tense; 1. 1824: deciphering hyperbole: Stendhal's Vie de Rossini; 2. 1825: 'Quelque peu théâtral': the operatic coronation of Charles X; 3. 1826: 'Les Grecs sont français': musical philhellenism in Paris; 4. 1827: dying for music: Rossini and Moïse; 5. 1828: the discovery of the 'twin styles'; 6. 1829: looking for the Revolution in Guillaume Tell; Epilogue: 1830: beyond the Rossinian Moment; Bibliography; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'Rossini in Restoration Paris is an excellent essay in historical and stylistic defamiliarzation, with contemporary evidence, solid musical analysis, insightful observations and an evocative writing style blending to create a Restoration resplendent in its contradictions.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review