5.11.+Gioachino+Antonio+Rossini

__**Gioachino Antonio Rossini**

Biography__: (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868). Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses. His mother, Anna, was a singer and a 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 musical group. When he was a boy, he had three years of instruction in the harpsichord from Giuseppe Prinetti of Novara, who played the scale with two fingers only. He learned to sight-read, to play accompaniments on the piano, and to sing well enough to take solo parts in the church when he was ten years of age. Important from this period are six //sonate a quattro,// or string sonatas, composed in three days.

Rossini's first opera, was written when he was thirteen or fourteen, the work was not staged until the composer was twenty years old, premiering as his sixth official opera. He studied at The Conservatorio of Bologna. At Bologna he was known as "il Tedeschino" ("the Little German") on account of his devotion to Mozart. He received the prize at the Conservatorio of Bologna for his cantata //Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte d’Orfeo//. All the works was eclipsed by the enormous successes of his operas //Tancredi// and //L'Italiana in Algeri// (1813). Rossini continued to write operas for Venice and Milan during the next few years, and his payment was to be 200 ducats per month. Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer. Rossini's most famous opera was produced on February 20, 1816 at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Rossini claimed to have written the opera in only twelve days. The title //The Barber of Seville// passed as an inalienable heritage. The most famous "aria" from this opera is //Largo al Factotum//, sung by Figaro (baritone).

In 1822, four years after the production of this work, Rossini married the renowned opera singer Isabella Colbran.

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.

His first wife died in 1845, and on August 16, 1846 he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of //Judith and Holofernes.//

__works__: -La cambiale di matrimonio -//L'equivoco stravagante// -//L'inganno felice// -//Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare// -//La scala di seta// -//La pietra del paragone// -//L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia// -//Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo// -//Tancredi// -//L'italiana in Algeri// -//Il turco in Italia// -//Aureliano in Palmira// -//Sigismondo// -//Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra// -//Torvaldo e Dorliska// -//Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione// -//La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso// -//Otello, ossia Il Moro di Venezia// -//La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo// -//Guillaume Tell// -//Le comte Ory// -//Le siège de Corinthe// -//Semiramide// -//La donna del lago// -//Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro// -//Ivanhoé//

__Pictures__: __Video__: media type="youtube" key="WIf8Zi6dZaY" height="344" width="425" __Commented piece__: The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira , is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style. This opera have a lot of convinations of diferents tipes of intruments.

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