Gioachino Rossini - Wikipedia
WEBGioachino[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.
Gioachino Rossini - World History Encyclopedia
WEBGioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer of around 40 operas, including the comic operas The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville. Rossini championed melody and beautiful singing over operatic drama, rattling out sensational hit after hit until his early retirement at 37.
Gioachino Rossini | Italian Composer & Opera Pioneer
WEBGioachino Rossini was an Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger-scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William Tell (1829).
Who was Gioachino Rossini? Everything You Need to Know
WEBGiachino Rossini was an Italian opera composer best known for his operas such as Il barbiere di Siviglia and Tancredi. He was born to musician parents and exhibited signs of natural talent in music at an early age.
The Best of Rossini - YouTube
WEBMay 24, 2013 · Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Rossini, one of the most influential composers in the history of opera, was born on February 29, 1792, in Pesaro, Italy. Rossini's father, a horn player, recognized...
Gioachino Rossini: A Life - Classic FM
WEBGioachino Rossini: A Life. Operagoers were intoxicated by his frothy comic masterpieces – but at the moment of Rossini's greatest success, the Italian composer stopped writing them. Rossini was one of classical music’s great bon viveurs.
Gioachino Rossini - Biography | Deutsche Grammophon
WEBGioachino Rossini was an amiable, jovial character with an almost obsessive love of fine food. He is most celebrated for his sparkling comic operas. He was nicknamed ‘Signor Crescendo’ because of the trademark intensifying of sound he used in his music, and he became the most widely acclaimed and wealthy composer of his time.
Gioachino Rossini - Opera World
WEBGioachino Antonio Rossini (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.
Gioachino Rossini | San Francisco Classical Voice
WEBGioachino Rossini. Known as “The Swan of Pesaro,” Rossini was the most popular composer of the first half of the 19th century. Rossini’s highly ornate musical style revolutionized the art form, inaugurating the “Golden …
Gioachino Rossini - rbo.org.uk
WEBGioachino Rossini (1792–1868) was the greatest Italian composer of his time. In the first half of his life he was astonishingly prolific, and composed nearly forty operas by the age of 38. Of those many are key to the repertories of modern opera companies around the world.
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