Gioachino Rossini

Books about Gioachino Rossini and his music

Richard Osborne Rossini (Master Musicians Series) Oxford University Press, 2002; ISBN 0198164904; 360 pages Price indication: $ 21.95

Emanuele Senici and Jonathan Cross The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (Cambridge Companions to Music) Cambridge University Press, 2004; ISBN 0521001951; 280 pages Price indication: $ 23.99

Francis Toye Rossini: A Study in Tragi-Comedy Scholarly Pr, 1954; ISBN 0403017041 Price indication: $ 79.00

Gaia Servadio Rossini Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003; ISBN 0786711957; 320 pages Brilliant, dashing, the most sought-after composer of opera in the Romantic age, Gioacchino Rossini captured the ears and hearts of music lovers throughout Europe. From his native Italy to Paris to London, he mounted triumph after triumph-works like the grandly comic The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, and his masterpiece, William Tell. Prodigiously talented, by the age of thirty-two, in 1820, he had written thirty-nine operas and commanded universal adoration. Then he fell silent for more than forty years. The mystery that drove Rossini from the forefront of Europe's cultural stage and that curtailed an unparalleled operatic career lies at the center of Gaia Servadio's perceptive and revealing biography. With the benefit of previously unpublished letters and other new material, Servadio traces the history of Rossini-a man who exchanged ideas with Richard Wagner and in Paris salons kept company with Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Eugene Delacroix-from a difficult, impoverished childhood through his complicated relationships with his divas, to his battles with nervous illnesses. She sets Rossini's life, too, against the sweep of European history in an age defined and betrayed by Napoleon. Price indication: $ 17.16

David Mountifield ROSSINI: COMPACT COMPANIONS : A LISTENER'S GUIDE TO THE CLASSICS (Compact Companions) Simon & Schuster, 1995; ISBN 0684813610; 192 pages A package containing a book and compact disc. The text includes an illustrated biography of the composer, a complete list of works and a list of recommended recordings. The CD is 60 minutes long and includes both favourite and less well-known pieces. This volume looks at Rossini. Price indication: $ 2.43

Fernando Fraga Rossini-Obra Completa Comentada Peninsular Publishing Company, 2004; ISBN 848307124X; in Spanish Price indication: $ 18.22

Francis Toye Rossini: The Man and His Music Dover Publications, 1987; ISBN 0486253961; 288 pages Price indication: (used only): from $ 9.78

Stendhal Life of Rossini, Orion Press, 1970; ISBN 067042790X; 566 pages Price indication: (used only): from $ 8.62

Herbert Weinstock Rossini Limelight Editions, 1987; ISBN 0879101024; 560 pages Price indication: (used only): from $ 26.61

Edmond Michotte Richard Wagner's Visit to Rossini Univ of Chicago Pr (T), 1982; ISBN 0226524434 Price indication: $ 21.95

Michotte Richard Wagner Visit Rossini & Eve Ross Quartet Books Ltd, 1992; ISBN 070437031X Price indication: $ 6.95

Sheet music, libretti, etc.

Gioachino Rossini - Favorite Overtures: Critical Edition Full Score - Ricordi

La Cenerentola - Ricordi

Music Minus One Mezzo-Soprano: Rossini Opera Arias for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra (Book & CD) - Music Minus One

Quelques riens pour album (The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas) - Fondazione Rossini

The Barber of Seville in Full Score - Dover Publications

The Barber of Seville Vocal Score - Dover Publications

William Tell and Other Overtures in Full Score - Dover Publications