Musical life
There was a sharp prestigious competition between Italian cities, also by lintermédiaire of dopéras productions. They all wanted to attract composers and singers / singers in vogue, but not necessarily the best nétaient (s). However, this competition does not play at the level of wages. The budgets of operas, clinically shelled by Stendhal, that nassuraient meager wages for all staff engaged in the production (composer, singers, musicians, designers, singers).
Opera was a topic hotly debated by the bourgeois cities. The public reacted to the dune fanatically given show (whistles, cheers), and even dune violent and dangerous way: we came to a sublime passage (a spectator) never failed to throw his shoes behind him in the audience!
The writing revolutionary Rossini
Before Rossini, the composer nécrivait not much quun canvas. The singer could interpret it freely and thus played a prominent part in artistic creation. But, against, Rossini was the first composer who wrote exactly all the ornaments, all the frills that the singer was to perform. A revolution.
For each opera, Rossini First of studying the voices of its singers. His most brilliant ideas came about three in the morning. He wrote in haste on scraps of paper without using the piano. Then he began the real composition. This is so that he composed The Barber of Seville in 13 days!
View art and music
For Stendhal, music can have on men DEFFET quen exciting their imagination to produce certain images similar to the passions they are restless. For him, the arts are only the luxuries of life; honesty, reason, justice, are necessary. In addition, the cold genius of Protestantism kills arts.
For Stendhal, as for his great admirer dailleurs F. Nietzsche (The Birth of Tragedy), fine arts (especially music) are made for comfort: This is when the soul has regrets, this is during the first days of sadness dautomne life is when we see mistrust sélever like a ghost behind every hedge disastrous campaign, that it is good to have recourse to the music.
Art is a comfort: this art gives tender regret providing "view of happiness"; and to see the happiness, though in a dream, this is almost give Lesperance.
Politics and Censorship
As of today, censorship is pervasive Back then where Rossini composed his masterpieces. Among corrupt editors and a press (empty phrases of ideas on books that fear still dares print and today there are only spies or simpletons who print), the composer was always tormented by police who refused him all libretti pretext dallusions.
This book will interest mainly fans of classical music (from opera).
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