Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson read the Ossian poems, Goethe included them in The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Schubert and Mendelssohn both composed music to them.
The published translations acquired international popularity and set off a craze for idealising and romanticizing the Scottish Highlands. Īs he worked on the libretto, Tottola "was also intrigued by the epic Celtic tales of Ossian" published in 1760 by James Macpherson, who claimed to have found poems written by an ancient bard. Later, the librettist claimed the topic for "this difficult task" had been chosen by the Naples impresario. He then immediately called upon the Naples-based librettist Andrea Leone Tottola (who is described as "a comparative mediocrity when set against the likes of a Felice Romani)". On hearing about the poem from Batton, Rossini asked for a copy and within a few days informed Batton he was so delighted with it he would compose an opera based on it. It seems Rossini was initially attracted to Scott's poem when, in musicologist Philip Gossett's opinion, he was introduced to it in translation by the young French composer Désiré-Alexandre Batton, a student of his and Prix de Rome winner then in Italy. Rossini was quickly asked to write an opera for a September premiere rather than use an existing libretto, the house insisted upon a wholly new opera and he accepted the challenge. Suddenly, the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini withdrew from a commitment to write two operas for the Naples house that season, thus leaving a huge gap. Also, a commission from Milan's La Scala for an opera, which would become Bianca e Falliero, had been offered and was planned for December of that year. After being obliged to leave Pesaro hurriedly in May 1819 (it turned out to be his last visit there), Rossini returned to Naples in early June with no projects in the offing, except to become involved with overseeing a new production of his La gazza ladra there.
The period between La gazza ladra (1817) and Semiramide (1823) was marked by the production of twelve operas of little significance, with the exception of La donna del lago. In modern times, performances have been given fairly frequently. Although the première on 24 September 1819 was not a success, there followed many performances throughout major European venues (as well as being presented in Cuba and by major South American houses) until about 1860, after which the opera disappeared until 1958. Written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, this was the seventh of nine operas which Rossini wrote for that house between 18. Others in German, French and English followed. Scott was "deeply influential in the development of Italian romantic opera" to the extent that by 1840 (barely 20 years after this opera), there were 25 Italian operas based on his works, the most famous being Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor of 1835. It was the first of the Italian operas to be based on Scott's romantic works, and marked the beginning of romanticism in Rossini's work. Scott's basic story has been noted as coming from "the hint of an incident stemming from the frequent custom of James V, the King of Scotland, of walking through the kingdom in disguise". And it continues to play even when minimized.La donna del lago ( English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) based on the French translation of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic Scottish Highlands.
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On the plus side, The app itself works most of the time on my ipad. If you used to be christian, but like me have found a more sensible path to walk… don’t subscribe to calm radio… it will only annoy you. So at the end of the day i am neither relaxed nor inspired by this cookie cutter music. Other times i am actively listening and cant help but recognize the song, which then gets my mind occupied on all the many reasons i gave up the faith. If i listen half heartedly, next thing i know i find myself singing along the praises to the lord without even realizing it. Speaking as a person who used to be a devout christian and now is a firm atheist… i find this music unacceptable and rather offensive. I bought a years subscription with the desire to relax to music NOT so i could worship Jesus. Im SO disappointed that there seems to be an excess of christian instrumental songs played across many, many channels which do not identify themselves as christian.
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