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Benjamin Walton, Rossini in Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xv + 349pp. £50

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Benjamin Walton, Rossini in Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xv + 349pp. £50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

Jonathan Kregor
Jonathan Kregor
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University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 2009 , pp. 132 - 135
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References

page 132 note 8 From Cambridge University Press, ‘Cambridge Companions to Music’ (n.d.), www.cambridge.org/us/series/sSeries.asp?code=CCMC (accessed 20 May 2009).

page 132 note 1 Knittel, K.M., ‘The Construction of Beethoven’, in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, ed. Samson, Jim (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001): 118–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Osborne, Richard, Rossini (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), esp. 92–112Google Scholar; Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini, gen. ed. Gossett, Philip (Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini Pesaro, 1979–2005)Google Scholar.

3 A fine critical edition of Stendhal's Vie de Rossini has been made by Pierre Brunel (Paris: Gallimard, 1992).Google Scholar The most current English translation is The Life of Rossini, 2nd ed., trans. Coe, Richard N. (London: Oneworld Publications, 2008)Google Scholar.

4 On this phenomenon, as well as for the most comprehensive study of the exotic in music, see Locke, Ralph P., Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)Google Scholar

5 The French fascination with Switzerland and Italy only increased in the next decade. See Celenza, Anna Harwell, ‘Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination’, in Franz Liszt and His World, ed. Gibbs, Christopher H. and Gooley, Dana (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006): 3–38Google Scholar.