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Looking for the revolution in Rossini's Guillaume Tell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2004

BENJAMIN WALTON
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August in the Restoration, like Augusts before and since, was a time for those who could afford it to escape the hot, dirty streets of Paris to head for the country. With this in mind, Ludovic Vitet, music critic of Le Globe, broadcast an appeal in his Bulletin musical on 1 August 1829 (cloudy and unseasonably cool): Have patience, you poor dilettanti who have rushed back from the countryside; and those of you who have put off your departure to be present at the first performance of this marvel, don't think that you have yet reached the end of your suffering.

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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , July 2003 , pp. 127 - 151
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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