Chapter 29 ROSSINI AFTER "WILLIAM TELL."

THE reason why Rossini, after producing "Guillaume Tell," ceased finally to write for the stage is still a mystery, which has been rendered only more mysterious by the various and often contradictory explanations given of the composer's silence.

In the first place, the coldness with which "Guillaume Tell" was received, and the successive mutilat

            
            

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