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164 ROSSINI ROTA
G. Carpani. Xe Rossinia/m, ossia Lettere musico-teal/raU.
Fadua, 1824, 130 pages, 8vo. Portrait.
Nic. Bettoni. Rossini e la silo, musica. Milan, 1824,
8vo.
. P. Brighenti. Delia musica rossinianae del suoatitcyre.
Bologna, 1830, 8vo.
Lib. Musumeci. Parallelo tra i maestri Rossini e Bellini.
Palermo, 1832, 8vo.
Anon. Osserva^loni iml meriio miiHcale dei maestri
Bellini e Rossini, in riposta ad im Parallelo tra i msdesimi.
Bologna, 1-34, 8vo. This pamphlet was translated
into French by M. de Ferrer, and published as
Rossini et Bellini. Paris, 1835, 8vo.
Anon. Rossini e la sua musica ; uma Passeggi'ata con
Rossini. Florence, 1841, lOrao.
Anon. Dello Stabat Mater di Gioachino Rossmi, Lettere
Storico-critvihe di un Lombardo. Bologna, 1842, 8vo.
Giov. Bafiaelli. Rossini, canto. Modena, 1844, 8vo,
Pr. Begli. Mlogio dA GioaecMno Rossini. We have
not been able to discover how far Eegli (1804-66) has
used this work in his Diaionario biografico (1860).
E. Montazio. GioaccMno Rossi/ni. Turin, 1862, ISmo.
Portrait.
Giul. Vanzolini. Delia vera Patria di G. Rossini.
Pesaro, 1873, 8vo.
Ferrucci. GivMzio perewtorio siUla veritA delta Patria
di G. Rossini impugnata dal Prof. Giul. Vanzolini. Florence,
1874 ; an 8vo pamphlet of 20 pages.
Sett Silvestri. Delia vita e ddle opere di G. Rossini.
Milan, 1874, 8vo ; with portrait and facsimiles.
Ant. Zanollni. BiograjM di Gioaehino Rossini. Bologna,
1876, 8vo ; with portrait and facsimiles.
[E. Gandolfi. Onorameiiorentine a Gioacchino Rossini.
1902.]
II. Fpench
Papillon. Lettre critique sur Rossi/ni. Paris, 1823, 8vo.
Stendhal. Vie de Rossini. Paris, 1823, 8vo. Stendhal,
whose real name was Henri Beyle, complied this
work from Carpani. In many passages in fact It is
nothing but a translation, and Beyle's own anecdotes
are not always trustworthy. It was translated into
English (London, 12mo, 1326) and German (Leipzig,
1824), in the latter case by Wendt, who has added notes
and corrections.
Berton. De la mnsique micanique ei de la musique
philosopMque. Paris, 1824, 8vo ; 24 pages.
Ditto, followed by an tpitre a un ciUbre com/positeur
fransais (Boieldleu). Paris, 1826, 8vo ; 48 pages.
Imbert de Laphal6que. De la Mwsique en France:
Rossini,
'
GvAllawrM Tdl.' (Revue de PaHs, 1829.)-
J. d'Ortigue. De la guerre des dilettanti ou dela revolution
opiree par M. Rossini dans Vopira fran^is.
Paris, 1829, 8vo.
N. Bettoni. Rossi/tii et sa musique. Paris, Bettoni,
1836, 8vo.
Anon. Vie de Rossini, etc. Antwerp, 1839, 12mo
215 pages. (By M. Van Damme, who in his turn has
borrowed much from Stendhal.)
L. de Lom6nle. M. Rossini, par un fcomTne de rien.
Paris, 1842, 8vo.
Aulagnler. Quelques observatUms sur la publication
du 'Stabat mater' de Rossini. Paris, 1842, 4to.
Anon. Observations d'un amateur non dilettante au
'
sujet du Stabat ' de M. Rossini. Paris, 1842, 8vo.
B. Troupenas. Risumi des opinions de la Presse sur le
' Stabat ' de Rossini. Paris, 1842, 8vo ; 75 pages.
Bscudier frferes. Rossi/ni, sa vie et ses ceuvres. Paris,
1854, 12mo ; 338 pages.
Bug. de Mirecourt. Rossini. Paris, 1855, 32mo.
A. Azevedo. G. Rossini, sa vie et ses ceuvres. Paris,
1805, large 8vo ; 310 pages, with portraits and facsimiles.
This is the most complete and eulogistic work on
Rnssinl. It appeared originally in the Minestrel, but
was discontinued there, the editor not approving of a
violent attack on Meyerbeer, which Azevedo Included
in It.
Virmaitre et Blie Fr6bault. Les maisons comiques de
Paris, 1868, 12mo. One chapter is devoted to the house
of Bossinl.
N. Eoqueplan. Rossini. Paris, 1869, 12mo ; 16 pages.
B. Beul6. Eloge de Rossini. Paris, 1869.
A, Pougln. Rossini: Notes, impressions, souvenirs,
cammmtaires. Paris, 1870, 8vo ; 91 pages. The detailed
and annotated chronological list mentioned on p. 8 has
not yet heen published.
O. Moutoz. Rossini et son * GuiUavme TeU.' Bourg,
1872, Svo.
Vander Straeten. La milodie populai/re dams I'opixa
Rossini. Paris, 1879, Svo.
[J. Sittard. Rossini, 1862.]
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Gmlkmme Tell ' de
III.
German
Oettinger. Rossini, Kcmisclier Roman. Leipzig, 1847.
A satirical work translated into Danish by Marlow
(Copenhagen, 1849, 2 vols. 8vo.) ; into Swedish by Landberg
(Stockholm, 1850, 2 vols. 8vo) ; and into French
by Royer, Rossini, Vhc/nvme et I'artiste (Brussels, 1858,
3 vols. 16mo).
Otto Gumprecht. MusikaMschii CharakterbUder.. Leipzig,
1869, 8vo.
Fd.- Hiller. Plaudereien mil Rossini. Inserted (with
date 1856) in Hiller's Aua dem Tonleben unserer Zeit
(Leipzig, 1868) ; translated into French by Ch. Schwartz
In La France mnisicale, 1856 ; and into English by Miss
M. B. von Glehn in Once a Week, 1870.
A. Struth. Rossini, sein Leben, seine Werke wnd Charakterziige.
Leipzig.
La Mara. Muslkalisehe Studienkop/e, vo'. 11. Leipzig,
1874-1876, 2 vols. 12m6.
IV. English
Hogarth. MemAnrs of the Musical Drama, London,
1838, 2 vols. Svo.
H. S. Edwards. Rossini's Life. London, 1869, Svo
portrait.—/Jisiorv of the Opera, lb. 1862, 2 vols. Svo.
Rossini and his Sdiool, 1881.
Portraits of Rossini are frequent at all periods
of his life. Marochetti's statue, in which he is
represented sitting, was erected in his native
town in 1864. There is a good bust by Bartolini
of Florence. In the foyer ' ' of the Opera
in the Rue Le Peletier, Paris (now destroyed),
there was a medallion of Rossini by Chevalier ;
a duplicate of this is in the possession of the
editor of the Minestrd. The front of the
new opera-house has a bronze -gilt bust by
M. Evrard. A good early engraving of him is
that from an oil-painting by Mayer of Vienna
(1820). Of later ones may be mentioned that
by Th^venin after Ary Schefifer (1843) : still
later, a full-length drawn and engraved by
Masson, and a photograph by Erwig, engraved
as frontispiece to the PF. score of S^miramis
(Heugel). Among the lithographs the best is
that of Grdvedon ; and of caricatures the only
one deserving mention is that by Dantan. (vo.
ROTA, or ROTTA (Fr. rote ; Ger. rotte, or
(i.) A stringed instrument of the
psaltery class, the three (or seven) strings of
which were plucked either with the fingers or
with a plectrum. It is mentioned as early aS
A.D. 868 by Otfried. It seems to be allied to
the ancient lyre. The derivation of the word
from the Irish crott or cruAt, or the Welsh crwth
(called chrotta by Venantius Fortunatus), seems
hardly likely ' without more definite evidence
than is before us. The instruments of the crwth
kind were generally played with a bow.
(ii.) The name rota is applied to the famous
round,
'
Sumer is icumen in ' (see that article),
and may have been a generic name for what we
now call rounds, the derivation being in that
case quite obvious. m.
ROTA, Andrea, was bom in Bologna about
1553, and in 1583 was appointed choir-master
to the church of San Petronio in that city.
He died in 1597. His publications consist of