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Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini , 1792-1868, 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,... Read more
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792–1868) Italian opera composer. Rossini's comic operas, including The Barber of Seville (1816) and La Cenerentola ("Cinderella", 1817), demonstrate his wit and sense of... Read more
Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini
...Tell (1829). After 1832 his health was poor, and he composed little until the series of piano pieces and songs collected as Sins of My Old Age (1868). Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini Read more

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