Chapter 15 ROSSINI'S REPRODUCTIONS FROM HIMSELF.

"La Cenerentola" belongs to the composite order of operatic architecture. But no canon has been set against self-robbery; and Rossini, who never professed any theory on the subject of dramatic expression in music, had the right to take a piece from one of his works which had failed, or which seemed already to have had its day, to place it in anothe