MUHI 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gioachino Rossini, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder
5 Feb 2017
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The dialectical antithesis to beethoven: gioacchino rossini (1792-1868) (beethoven would never have retired!: learn by doing, born into a family of musicians, self-taught. Both beethoven and rossini did not go to music school. The 19th century italian opera industry: more like broadway musicals than operas today: Singers the most important, could make changes to suit them (cid:498)suitcase arias(cid:499), arias singers put into shows for fans (cid:498)shows(cid:499) reworked, rearranged for different occasions, locations. As opposite of beethoven: the (cid:498)rossini craze(cid:499) German nationalism: germans were powerless over rossini, his operas were even sung in german. Beethoven is not escapist entertainment; is serious: always demanding of his audience, the (cid:498)code rossini(cid:499) Finding a winning formula and sticking with it: good because it"s the same. Beethoven is always looking to improve or tinker with his formula. 2 themes in exposition: first theme, second theme: always wind solo.
