JAVS Spring 2013

Example 2. Gioachino Rossini, Matilde di Shabran , Act II aria, “Ah! Perché, perché la morte” [Edoardo], horn [viola] solo, mm. 4–22. Note the low B-flats.

Notes 1 Ferdinand Hiller, “Plaudereien mit Rossini,” in Aus dem Tonleben unserer Zeit (Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1868), 2:41–42. unless otherwise indicated, all translations are by the author. 2 Massimo D’Azeglio, Recollections of Massimo D’Azeglio , trans. Count [Andrea] Maffei (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868), 2:150.

Carlos María Solare is an Argentinian violist, viola d’amore player, and musicologist based in Berlin. He writes regularly for The Strad and Opera magazines and has contributed to MGG (Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) and Grove Online . His main research fields are the musical theater of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the history of per formance practice of string instruments.

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