Rossini brief biography of prophet

Italian opera composer (1792–1868)

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Gioachino^{[n 1]} Antonio Rossini^{[n 2]} (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.

This is the first complete translation of Stendhal's great study, which has been called by Ernest Newman the best appreciation of Rossini ever written.

Stendhal expanded this initial work into a biography of Rossini published a violent offence against all the rules we find ourselves disposed, prophet.

This representation of course had little to do with Rossini's actual biography.

February's aria of the month was selected in celebration of the th birthday of composer Gioachino Rossini, a famous leap year baby.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born on the 29th February, ; and the circumstance of his having come into the world in a leap-year justified him, he used to.

Born in Pesaro to parents who were both musicians (his father a trumpeter, his mother a singer), Rossini began to compose by the age of twelve and was educated at music school in Bologna. His first opera was performed in Venice in 1810 when he was 18 years old.

In 1815 he was engaged to write operas and manage theatres in Naples. In the period 1810–1823, he wrote 34 operas for the Italian stage that were performed in Venice, Milan, Ferrara, Naples a