Vie de Rossini, Vol. 1: Suivi des Notes d'un Dilettante; Avec un Fac-Simile Hors Texte (Classic Reprint)

by Stendhal

Excerpt from Vie de Rossini, Vol. 1: Suivi des Notes d'un Dilettante; Avec un Fac-Simile Hors Texte

Dès lors, Beyle n'entendit plus parler que de Rossini et dut s'étonner de n'avoir pas plus tôt connu sa musique. Partout, au théâtre, au concert, au bal, dans les salons, au café, par les rues, on ne jouait que des airs de Tancredi ou de l'italiana. D'abord il s'insurgea. Tout le temps du Rossini, c'était le pâté d'anguilles 2, et puis, que prétendait exprimer cette musique toujours vive, élégante et pimpante C'était un ragoût, une sauce piquante.

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456 pages, Hardcover

Published January 3, 2018

About the author

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).