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This scholarly study, first published in 1989, explores Italian attitudes towards opera during Vincenzo Bellini's formative years as a composer and student. Drawing extensively on Italian critical and aesthetic writing from the final era of bel canto dominance, the book examines the cultural context that shaped operatic traditions. Many of the writers and sources analysed are rarely studied in contemporary scholarship, yet they articulate the foundational views on music, opera, and vocal performance that characterised this insular but influential Italian tradition. The work provides invaluable insight into the aesthetic principles and musical philosophy underlying early nineteenth-century Italian opera, making it essential reading for students of music history and Italian cultural studies seeking to understand Bellini's compositional environment and the artistic values of his time.

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Examines Italian aesthetic and critical writing on opera from the bel canto era when Bellini was composing.

Features analysis of lesser-known Italian writers whose views shaped nineteenth-century operatic traditions.

Explores the cultural attitudes and musical philosophy that influenced Vincenzo Bellini's development as a composer.

Published by Routledge as part of the Library Editions series on Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.

Designed for students of music history and Italian studies interested in early nineteenth-century opera.

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30 November 2018
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