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LEARN COMPOSER BIOS BIZET DELIBES ... WAGNER Gioacchino Rossini Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1792 to musician parents. He learned the horn and singing and began his operatic writing at the age of 18 when he wrote a one-act comedy for Venice. He began to receive further commissions from Bologna, Venice and Milan. Rossini was prolific in his writing, composing up to seven operas in the span of 16 months. Rossini's operas, both buffa and seria, showed his mastery of the bel canto (beautiful singing) school of composition. With florid lines, vocal embellishments, incredible speed and spontaneity, Rossini created some of the most unforgettable music in the operatic repertoire. His first operas to win international acclaim were the serious Tancredi (1813) and the commedia dell'arte L'italiana in Algeri (1813). The latter work showed Rossini's youthful exuberance and diligence (he completed the opera at the age of 21 and in 27 days). In 1815, Rossini was hired as musical and artistic director for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples by impresario Domenico Barbaia. He composed Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England) for soprano, Isabella Colbran (Barbaia's mistress, later to become Rossini's wife). A rather unremarkable opera, save for the overture which Rossini borrowed from his earlier, less successful opera Aureliano in Palmira. This was a trick he would repeat less than two years later where the music would find overwhelming success as the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).

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Gioacchino Rossini Biography Gioacchino Rossini Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), and William Tell (the overture of which is popularly known for being the theme song for The Lone Ranger). Biography Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His father Giuseppe was town trumpeter and inspector of slaughterhouses, his mother Anna a singer and baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's band. Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed Napoleon's troops when they arrived in Northern Italy. This became a problem when in 1796, the Austrians restored the old regime. Rossini's father was sent to prison, and his wife took Gioacchino to Bologna, earning her living as lead singer at various theatres of the Romagna region, where she was ultimately joined by her husband. During this time, Gioacchino was frequently left in the care of his aging grandmother, who was unable to effectively control the boy. Gioacchino remained at Bologna in the care of a pork butcher, while his father played the horn in the bands of the theatres at which his mother sang. The boy had three years instruction in the harpsichord from Prinetti of Novara, but Prinetti played the scale with two fingers only, combined his profession of a musician with the business of selling liquor, and fell asleep while he stood, so that he was a fit subject for ridicule by his critical pupil.

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Gioacchino Rossini Gioacchino Antonio Rossini February 29 November 13 ) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il Barbiere di Siviglia The Barber of Seville ), and William Tell (popularly known for being the overture used as theme song for The Lone Ranger Biography Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy . His father Giuseppe was town trumpeter and inspector of slaughterhouses, his mother Anna a singer and baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's band. Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed Napoleon 's troops when they arrived in Northern Italy. This became a problem when in , the Austrians restored the old regime. Rossini's father was sent to prison, and his wife took Gioacchino to Bologna , earning her living as lead singer at various theatres of the Romagna region, where she was ultimately joined by her husband. During this time, Gioacchino was frequently left in the care of his aging grandmother, who was unable to effectively control the boy.

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Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... R > Gioacchino Antonio Rossini A B C D ... Z Gioacchino Antonio Rossini Rossini was not only the chief operatic composer of his time, but also a great innovator. Lesueur, in 1824, the greatest composer of the French school, said that "his ardent genius had opened a new road and marked a new epoch in musical art". In the opera seria for long recitatives he substituted more singing; in the opera buffa he inaugurated a new comedy style. He introduced many new instruments into the Italian orchestras. To him belongs the preghiera Pius IX , in 1864 a "Messe Solennelle". In 1836 he went to live with his father at Bologna; but from 1855 till his death he was again in France. Edwards, The Life Of Rossini (London, 1869); Silvestri, Della Vita e delle opere di G. Rossini (Milan, 1874); Azevedo, Rossini, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1864); Oettinger, Joachim Rossini (Lepizig, 1852). A. WALTER Transcribed by Ferruccio Germani The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII Nihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor

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Encyclopedia Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio [j O E O O r O s-s E E Pronunciation Key Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio , Italian operatic composer, one of the great masters of the Italian opera buffa. His parents were both musicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his first formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was performed. Rossini's first comic opera, La Cambiale de Matrimonio, was produced in Venice in 1810, and it was followed by a series of lively works, culminating in his masterpiece, Il Barbiere di Siviglia The Barber of Seville, 1816). Based on the comedy by Beaumarchais, the opera resounds with Rossini's brilliant arias, ensemble numbers, and his famous crescendos. Among his many other operas are L'italiana in Algeri La Cenerentola (1817), and Semiramide William Tell Stabat Mater (1842), in which his operatic style is still evident. See biographies by Stendhal (1822, repr. 1982), F. Toye (1934, repr. 1987), and H. Weinstock (1968, 2d ed. 1987). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

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