Portrait

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)^[1] 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 Guillaume Tell (William Tell). Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Gioacchino Rossini ... Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Gioacchino Rossini ... February 29th, or bissextile day, is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opera in four acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell. ...

Biography

Early years

Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His father Giuseppe was a horn player 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. Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. ... A satellite image of the Adriatic Sea. ...

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 him 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, he was frequently left in the care of his aging grandmother, who was unable to effectively control the boy. Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly, between Reno River and Sàvena River. ... Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. ...

He 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. Harpsichord in Flemish style; for more info, click the image. ... Novara is a city of Piedmont, in North-west Italy, to the west of Milan. ...

Education

He was taken from Prinetti and apprenticed to a smith. In Angelo Tesei he found a congenial master, and learned to sight-read, to play accompaniments on the pianoforte, and to sing well enough to take solo parts in the church when he was ten years of age. At thirteen he appeared at the theatre of the Commune in Paër’s Camilla — his only public appearance as a singer (1805). He was also a capable horn player in the footsteps of his father. The piano Piano is a common abbreviation for pianoforte, a large musical instrument with a keyboard (see keyboard instrument). ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1807 the young Rossini was admitted to the counterpoint class of Padre P. S. Mattei, and soon after to that of Cavedagni for the cello at the Conservatorio of Bologna. He learned to play the cello with ease, but the pedantic severity of Mattei's views on counterpoint only served to drive the young composer's views toward a freer school of composition. His insight into orchestral resources is generally ascribed not to the strict compositional rules he learned from Mattei, but to knowledge gained independently while scoring the quartets and symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. At Bologna he was known as "il Tedeschino" ("the Little German") on account of his devotion to Mozart. 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Franz [1] Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period, called the Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet. A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a court musician for... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music. ...

Early Career

Through the friendly interposition of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La Cambiale di Matrimonio, was produced at Venice when he was a youth of eighteen. But two years before this he had already received the prize at the Conservatorio of Bologna for his cantata Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte d’Orfeo. Between 1810 and 1813, at Bologna, Rome, Venice and Milan, Rossini produced operas of varying success. All memory of these works is eclipsed by the enormous success of his opera Tancredi. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,500 km²  (580 sq mi... Venice, (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of the region of Veneto and the province of the same name in Italy. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán (listen)) is the main city of northern Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. ... Tancredi is an opera in two acts by composer Gioacchino Rossini and librettist Luigi Lechi, based on Voltaires play Tancrède (1759). ...

The libretto was an arrangement of Voltaire’s tragedy by A. Rossi. Traces of Paër and Paisiello were undeniably present in fragments of the music. But any critical feeling on the part of the public was drowned by appreciation of such melodies as "Di tanti palpiti . . . Mi rivedrai, ti rivedrò," which became so popular that the Italians would sing it in crowds at the law courts until called upon by the judge to desist. A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher. ... Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. ...

Rossini continued to write operas for Venice and Milan during the next few years, but their reception was tame and in some cases unsatisfactory after the success of Tancredi. In 1815 he retired to his home at Bologna, where Barbaja, the impresario of the Naples theatre, concluded an agreement with him by which he was to take the musical direction of the Teatro San Carlo and the Teatro Del Fondo at Naples, composing for each of them one opera a year. His payment was to be 200 ducats per month; he was also to receive a share of Barbaja's other business, popular gaming-tables, amounting to about 1000 ducats per annum. This was an amazingly lucrative arrangement for any professional musician at that time. Venice, (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of the region of Veneto and the province of the same name in Italy. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán (listen)) is the main city of northern Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Bay of Naples Naples (Italian: , Neapolitan: Nàpule, from Greek Νεάπολη < Νέα Πόλις Néa Pólis New City) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of the Campania region and the Province of Naples. ... The San Carlo is a famous opera house in Naples, Italy. ...

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer; but all hostility was made futile by the enthusiasm which greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer’s wife, took a leading part. The libretto of this opera by Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth. The opera was the first in which Rossini wrote the ornaments of the airs instead of leaving them to the fancy of the singers, and also the first in which the recitativo secco was replaced by a recitative accompanied by a string quartet. Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli (April 4, 1752 - May 5, 1837) was an Italian composer and choir master. ... Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. ... Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. ... Kenilworth is a romance novel written by Walter Scott. ...

Il barbiere di Siviglia

In Il barbiere di Siviglia, produced in the beginning of the next year in Rome, the libretto, a version of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville by Sterbini, was the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century. Paisiello’s admirers were extremely indignant when the opera was produced, but the opera was so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to his, to which the title of Il barbiere di Siviglia passed as an inalienable heritage. The Barber of Seville is a theatre play by Beaumarchais, written in 1775, and originally entitled Le Barbier de Séville in French. ... Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. ...

Between 1815 and 1823 Rossini produced twenty operas. Of these Otello formed the climax to his reform of serious opera, and offers a suggestive contrast with the treatment of the same subject at a similar point of artistic development by the composer Giuseppe Verdi. In Rossini’s time the tragic close was so distasteful to the public of Rome that it was necessary to invent a happy conclusion to Otello. The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). ...

Rossini

Conditions of stage production in 1817 are illustrated by Rossini’s acceptance of the subject of Cinderella for a libretto only on the condition that the supernatural element should be omitted. The opera La Cenerentola was as successful as Barbiere. The absence of a similar precaution in the construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus "Dal tuo stellato Soglio" to divert attention from the dividing waves. Gioacchino A. Rossini This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Gioacchino A. Rossini This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon Cinderella is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward, of which there were hundreds of versions before modern times. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... La Cenerentola is a comic opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Mosè Egitto is a three part opera on the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites, led by Moses. ... Location of the Red Sea Image:Red Seaimage. ...

Marriage and mid-career

In 1822, four years after the production of this work, Rossini married singer Isabella Colbran. In the same year, he directed his Cenerentola in Vienna, where Zelmira was also performed. After this he returned to Bologna; but an invitation from Prince Metternich to come to Verona and "assist in the general re-establishment of harmony" was too tempting to be refused, and he arrived at the Congress in time for its opening on October 20, 1822. Here he made friends with Chateaubriand and Dorothea Lieven. 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Isabella Colbran (1785-1845) was a Spanish dramatic coloratura soprano. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Klemens Wenzel von Metternich Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneberg-Beilstein (May 15, 1773 - June 11, 1858) (sometimes rendered in English as Prince Clemens Metternich) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era. ... This page is about the city in Italy; for other uses, see Verona (disambiguation). ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... François-René de Chateaubriand, painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century. ... Princess Dorothea Lieven (1785-1857) was a Russian noblewoman, the wife of the Russian ambassador to London from 1812-1834. ...

In 1823, at the suggestion of the manager of the King’s Theatre, London, he came to England, being much fêted on his way through Paris. In England he was given a generous welcome, which included an introduction to King George IV and the receipt of £7000 after a residence of five months. In 1824 he became musical director of the Théatre Italien in Paris at a salary of £800 per annum, and when the agreement came to an end he was rewarded with the offices of chief composer to the king and inspector-general of singing in France, to which was attached the same income. At the age of 32, Rossini was able to go into semi-retirement with essentially financial independence. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... George IV (George Augustus Frederick) (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

End of his career

The production of his Guillaume Tell in 1829 brought his career as a writer of opera to a close. The libretto was by Étienne Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, but their version was revised by Armand Marrast. The music is remarkable for its freedom from the conventions discovered and utilized by Rossini in his earlier works, and marks a transitional stage in the history of opera. Though a very good opera, it is rarely heard uncut today, as the original score runs more than four hours in performance. William Tell is an opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy (September 12, 1764 - September 4, 1846), French dramatist, was born at Jouy, near Versailles. ...

In 1829 he returned to Bologna. His mother had died in 1827, and he was anxious to be with his father. Arrangements for his subsequent return to Paris on a new agreement were upset by the abdication of Charles X and the July Revolution of 1830. Rossini, who had been considering the subject of Faust for a new opera, returned, however, to Paris in the November of that year. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly, between Reno River and Sàvena River. ... Naval Battle of Navarino by Carneray 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Charles X of France and Navarre (October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ...

Six movements of his Stabat Mater were written in 1832 and the rest in 1839, the year of his father's death. The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera; but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph, and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference. Mater dolorosa became an iconic type, as in this sixteenth-century Spanish version by Luis de Morales (c. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

Later years

His first wife died in 1845, and political disturbances in the Romagna area compelled him to leave Bologna in 1847, the year of his second marriage with Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of Judith and Holofernes. After living for a time in Florence he settled in Paris in 1855, where his house was a centre of artistic society. He died at his country house at Passy on November 13, 1868 and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. In 1887 his remains were moved to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, where they now rest. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Self-portrait Judas and Tamar, 1840. ... Florences skyline Florences skyline at night from Piazza Michaelangelo Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Passy is an exclusive suburb on the Right Bank of Paris, France and traditional home to many of the citys wealthiest residents. ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Looking down the hill at the Père-Lachaise cemetery The cimetière du Père-Lachaise (pronounced pierre la-sh-ez) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris (there are larger cemeteries in Paris suburbs). ... For the basilica in Florence, see Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice. ... Florences skyline Florences skyline at night from Piazza Michaelangelo Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ...

Honors

He was a foreign associate of the Institute, grand officer of the Legion of Honour, and the recipient of innumerable orders. Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ...

Notes

In his compositions Rossini plagiarized even more freely from himself than from other musicians, and few of his operas are without such admixtures frankly introduced in the form of arias or overtures.

A characteristic mannerism in his orchestral scoring earned for him the nickname of "Monsieur Crescendo." In musical notation, crescendo means that the notes are gradually getting louder. ...

Works of Rossini

Opera

• La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage) - 1810
• L'equivoco stravagante - 1811
• Demetrio e Polibio - 1812
• L'inganno felice - 1812
• Ciro in Babilonia (or La caduta di Baldassare) - 1812
• La scala di seta (The Silk Ladder) - 1812
• La pietra del paragone - 1812
• L'occasione fa il ladro (or Il cambio della valigia) - 1812
• Il Signor Bruschino (or Il figlio per azzardo) - 1813
• Tancredi - 1813
• L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)- 1813
• Aureliano in Palmira - 1813
• Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) - 1814
• Sigismondo - 1814
• Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England) - 1815
• Torvaldo e Dorliska - 1815
• Almaviva (or L'inutile precauzione or Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)) - 1816
• La Gazzetta (or Il matrimonio per concorso) - 1816
• Otello (or Il moro di Venezia) - 1816
• La Cenerentola (Cinderella, or La bontà in trionfo) - 1817
• La gazza ladra (or The Thieving Magpie) - 1817
• Armida - 1817
• Adelaide di Borgogna or Ottone, re d'Italia - 1817
• Mosè in Egitto (Moses in Egypt) - 1818
• Adina or Il califfo di Bagdad - 1818
• Ricciardo e Zoraide - 1818
• Ermione - 1819
• Eduardo e Cristina - 1819
• La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) - 1819
• Bianca e Falliero (or Il consiglio dei tre) - 1819
• Maometto secondo - 1820
• Matilde Shabran (Matilde di Shabran, or Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro) - 1821
• Zelmira - 1822
• Semiramide - 1823
• Il viaggio a Reims (Journey to Reims) (or L'albergo del giglio d'oro) - 1825
• Le siège de Corinthe - 1826 (a revision of Maometto secondo)
• Moïse et Pharaon (or Le passage de la Mer Rouge) - 1827 (a revision of Mosè in Egitto)
• Le comte Ory - 1828
• Guillaume Tell (William Tell) - 1829

La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) is a comic opera in one act by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Tancredi is an opera in two acts by composer Gioacchino Rossini and librettist Luigi Lechi, based on Voltaires play Tancrède (1759). ... Litaliana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) is a comic opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier libretto set by Luigi Mosca, a composer now forgotten. ... A seductive Turk visits Italy to discover European customs. ... Almaviva is a character in Beaumarchais Mariage de Figaro, representative of one of the old noblesse of France, recalling all their manners and vices, who is duped by his valet Figaro, a personification of wit, talent, and intrigue. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... La Gazzetta is a comic opera by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, satirising the influence of newspapers on peoples lives. ... Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ... La Cenerentola is a comic opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is an opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Adelaide di Borgogna or Ottone, re dItalia is an opera attributed to Gioacchino Rossini. ... Mosè Egitto is a three part opera on the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites, led by Moses. ... Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Il viaggio a Reims, ossia Lalbergo del giglio doro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Lily) is an operatic dramma giocoso in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an French libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou LItalie by Mme... Le Siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth) is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, based on Maometto II by Cesare della Valle. ... Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opera in four acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell. ...

Cantatas

• Il pianto d'armonia sulla morte di Orfeo - 1808
• La morte di Didone - 1811
• Dalle quete e pallid'ombre - 1812
• Egle ed Irene - 1814
• L'aurora - 1815
• Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo - 1816
• Omaggio umiliato - 1819
• Cantata - 1819
• La riconoscenza - 1821
• Giunone - before 1822
• La santa alleanza - 1822
• Il vero omaggio - 1822
• Omaggio pastorale -1823
• Il pianto delle muse i morte di Lord Byron - 1824
• Cantata per il battesimo del figlio del banchiere Aguado - 1827
• L'armonica cetra del nune - 1830
• Giovanna d'Arco - 1832, revision 1852
• Cantata in onore del sommo pontefico Pio IX - 1847

Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... Giovanna dArco (Joan of Arc) is an opera with a prelude and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the play Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich von Schiller. ...

Instrumental music

• Sei sonate a quattro (1804)
• Sinfonia "al conventello" (1806)
• Cinque duets pour cor (1806)
• Sinfonia (1808, utilisée dans l'inganno felice)
• Sinfonia (1809, utilisée dans la cambiale di matrimonio et adelaide di borgogna)
• Sinfonia "obbligata a contrabasso" (1807-10)
• Variazzioni di clarinetto (1809)
• Andante e tema con variazioni (1812)
• Andante e tema con variazioni per arpa e violino (1820)
• Passo doppio 1822 (variations de l'air di tanti palpiti dans tancredi)
• Valse (1823)
• Serenata (1823)
• Duetto (1824)
• Rendez-vous de chasse (1828)
• Fantaisie (1829)
• Trois marches militaires (1837)
• Scherzo (1843)
• Tema originale di Rossini variato per violino da Giovacchino Giovacchini (1845)
• Marcia (1852)
• Thème de Rossini suivi de deux variations et coda par Moscheles père (1860)
• La corona d'Italia (1868)

Sacred music

• Quoniam - 1813
• Messa di gloria - 1820
• Preghiera - 1820
• Tantum ergo - 1824
• Stabat mater - first version 1832, second version 1841
• Trois choeurs religieux - la foi, l'espérance, la charité, 1844
• Tantum ergo - 1847
• O salutaris hostia - 1857
• Laus deo - 1861
• Petite Messe Solennelle - first version 1864, second version 1867

Insert non-formatted text hereTantum ergo are the opening words of the Vespers for Corpus Christi, also sung during veneration of the Blessed Sacrament. ... Mater dolorosa became an iconic type, as in this sixteenth-century Spanish version by Luis de Morales (c. ... Insert non-formatted text hereTantum ergo are the opening words of the Vespers for Corpus Christi, also sung during veneration of the Blessed Sacrament. ... Gioacchino Rossinis Petite Messe Solennelle was written in 1863, last, the composer called it, of his pêchés de vieilesse (his sins of old age)[1]. The witty composer, who produced little for public hearing during his long retirement at Passy, prefaced his mass—characterized, apocryphally by Napoleon...

Vocal music

• Se il vuol la molinara (1801)
• Dolce aurette che spirate (1810)
• La mia pace io già perdei (1812)
• Qual voce, quai note (1813)
• Alla voce della gloria (1813)
• Amore mi assisti (1814)
• Il trovatore (1818)
• Il carnevale di Venezia (Rome, 1821)
• Belta crudele (1821)
• La pastorella (1821)
• Canzonetta spagnuola (1821)
• Infelice ch'io son (1821)
• Addio ai viennesi (1822)
• Dall'oriente l'astro del giorno (1824)
• Ridiamo, cantiamo, che tutto sen va (1824)
• In giorno si bello (London, 1824)
• Tre quartetti da camera (1827)
• Les adieux à Rome (1827)
• Orage et beau temps (1829/30)
• La passeggiata (Madrid, 1831)
• La dichiarazione (1834)
• Les soirées musicales (1830-1835)
• Deux nocturnes: 1. adieu a l'Italie, 2. le départ (1836)
• Nizza (1836)
• L'âme délaissée (1844)
• Francesca da Rimini (1848)
• Mi lagnero tacendo (1858)

Péchés de vieillesse

• Vol I Album italiano
• Vol II Album français
• Vol III Morceaux réservés
• Vol IV Quatre hors d’œuvres et quatre mendiants
• Vol V Album pour les enfants adolescents
• Vol VI Album pour les enfants dégourdis
• Vol VII Album de chaumière
• Vol VIII Album de château
• Vol IX Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor
• Vol X Miscellanée pour piano
• Vol XI Miscellanée de musique vocale
• Vol XII Quelques riens pour album
• Vol XIII Musique anodine

List and text of the songs on the website of the German Rossini Society In Gioacchino Rossinis Péchés de vieillesse (sins of old age), the opera composer gathered together numerous vocal and solo piano pieces into fourteen unpublished albums, under his self-deprecating and ironic title. ...

Notes

1. ^ His first name is usually spelled as Gioacchino but currently the Rossini Foundation uses in its pages five times Gioachino, five times "Rossini," and three times "G. Rossini." In its name, however, the foundation calls itself "Gioacchino Rossini" once (in its name immediately after the name of the composer), "G. Rossini" once, and "Fondazione Rossini" three times, including when giving its address. (Please see: [1])

Media

William Tell2. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ...

External links

• Fondazione G. Rossini
• Rossini Opera Festival
• Rossini in Wildbad - Belcanto Opera Festival
• Rossini cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
• The Rossini page at Classic Cat - the free classical music directory
• Free scores by Gioacchino Rossini in the Werner Icking Music Archive
• Gioacchino Rossini at the Internet Movie Database
• 1867 Caricature of Rossini by André Gill

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is a free digital collection maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries with streaming and downloadable versions of over 5,000 phonograph cylinders manufactured between 1895 and the mid 1920s. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. ... The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ... Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge&#8212;writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others&#8212;in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gioacchino Rossini