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	Gioacchino Rossini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
		Rossini's father was sent to prison, and his wife took Gioacchino to Bologna, earning her living as lead singer at various theatres of the Romagna region, where she was ultimately joined by her husband.
		In 1807 the young Rossini was admitted to the counterpoint class of Padre P. Mattei, and soon after to that of Cavedagni for the cello at the Conservatorio of Bologna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gioacchino_Rossini (2740 words)

	Rossini - MSN Encarta
		Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy, to a horn player (his father) and a singer (his mother).
		Later in 1816 Rossini produced the opera for which he was perhaps most esteemed by his contemporaries: Otello, an adaptation of the tragic play Othello by William Shakespeare.
		Rossini traveled to Paris and London in 1823 and received an invitation from French king Charles X to become director of the Théâtre Italien in Paris, with responsibilities for producing Italian operas and for composing a new opera every other year.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578915/Gioacchino_Rossini.html (1383 words)

	Gioacchino Rossini
		The elder Rossini's sympathies for the French became a source of trouble when, after the occupation of the papal state by the French in 1796, the Austrians restored the old regime.
		Conditions of stage mechanism 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.
		After this he returned to Bologna; but an invitation from Prince Metternich to come to Verona and "assist in the general reestablishment of harmony" was too tempting to be refused, and he arrived at the Congress in time for its opening on the 20th of October 1822.
	www.nndb.com /people/194/000025119 (1155 words)

	Opera Illinois: Gioacchino Rossini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gioacchino's father was an ardent supporter of a republican form of government who frequently tangled with the Italian papal authorities.
		Rossini is considered to be the last and greatest composer in the comic opera buffo style.
		Although in 1815 Rossini went to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo, he was allowed to compose for other theatres, and from this period date two of his supreme comedies that were written for Rome.
	www.operaillinois.com /previous/2001-2002/barber/rossini.htm (784 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Gioacchino Rossini - Composer
		Gioacchino (sometimes known as Gioachino or Gioacchimo) Rossini was born on the 29 February, 1792 (a leap year), in the Papal States, Italy.
		Rossini himself was impressed with the terms of the contract; he received security, and he only had to write two operas a year.
		Rossini was undoubtedly the most successful operatic composer of his time, and outstanding in his opera buffa; ('comic opera') with their light and lively music.
	www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A593011 (682 words)

	Gioacchino Rossini - Life
		Gioacchino Rossini is born in Pesaro, in the Papal State, on 29 February of 1792 from a musician father (Giuseppe Antonio Rossini) and a modiste but with good singing dowries mother (Anna Guidarini).
		The young Rossini began since he was a child to dedicate himself to music receiving singing lessons, spinet and horn (from his father), preferring Mozart and Haydin compositions things that gave him the nickname "Tedeschino" (Young German).
		Rossini had a great reputation and in Napoli "Mosè in Egitto" is performed, while his native town asked him, for the opening of a new, to represent the "Gazza" that had a huge success.
	www.emmedici.com /hobbies/musica/rossini/evita.htm (1068 words)

	Opera Company of Philadelphia 2006-2007 Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was born on February 29, 1792 in Pesaro, Italy.
		Rossini conducted that performance and was so affected by the negative response that he never conducted The Barber of Seville again.
		Gioacchino Rossini died of a heart attack on November 13, 1868 in Passy, France at the age of 76.
	www.operaphilly.com /06-07/prod2-composer.shtml (614 words)

	GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
		Gioacchino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792 in Pesaro, Italy.
		Rossini was a prolific opera composer until 1829, when at the age of 37 he suddenly decided to stop composing operas.
		Rossini left a legacy of operas which are among the most popular, loved and performed at opera houses around the world.
	www.greatkat.com /54/compose/rossini1.html (205 words)

	Gioacchino Rossini
		Rossini was born into a family of musicians in
		Rossini's father was sent to prison, and his wife took Gioacchino to
		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
	www.mp3.fm /Gioacchino_Rossini.htm (1878 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy Rossini had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra pit and on stage.
		Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the Figaro trilogy by Beaumarchais on which Mozart had drawn thirty years before in Vienna.
		Instrumental compositions by Rossini include his early String Sonatas, designed for two violins, cello and double bass and thought to have been written when the composer was twelve.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/rossini.html (482 words)

	"Gioacchino Rossini"..free music and video operas downloads
		Rossini's most important operas in the period that followed were for Naples.
		Rossini also abandoned traditional overtures, probably in order to involve his audiences in the drama from the outset.
		Among the masterpieces from this period are Maometto II (1820) and, written for Venice at the end of his time in Naples, Semiramide (1823).
	ring.mithec.com /sarir/rossini.html (513 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
		The elder Rossini's sympathies for the French became a source of trouble when, after the occupation of the papal state by the French in 1796,; the Austrians restored the old regime.
		He was sent to prison, and his wife took Gioacchino to Bologna,; earning her living as a prima donna buff a at various theatres of the Romagna,; where she was ultimately rejoined by her husband.
		Gioacchino was taken from him and apprenticed to a smith.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=864 (1442 words)

	Learn - Gioacchino Rossini - Arizona Opera
		Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1792 to musician parents.
		Rossini was prolific in his writing, composing up to seven operas in the span of 16 months.
		Apparently, Rossini felt this to be the pinnacle of his operatic career and at the age of 37 stopped writing opera for the remainder of his life.
	www.azopera.com /learn.php?subcat=composerbios&composer=Rossini (648 words)

	Romantic Composers - Gioacchino Rossini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gioacchino Rossini was a great comic opera composer during the Romantic period.
		Rossini wrote a total of 37 opera including The Barber of Seville in 1816 and ending with William Tell from which the famous overture comes.
		(The latter is better known in the 20th century as the theme to the "Lone Ranger") In 1829, at the age of 37, Rossini decided to retire from opera composing.
	www.bellevuechamberchorus.net /Research/Romantic/Composer/GRossini.htm (154 words)

	Gioacchino, Gioachino Rossini - mp3 - Operas & chamber - Opera Italiana
		One of the reasons for Rossini's "retirement" was his health: he was suffering from a serious manic-depressive syndrome, in part the result of the physical exhaustion caused by years of overworking; he had also contracted chronic gonorrhoea from a prostitute, which had left him with a deep sense of guilt and shame.
		Rossini was a mythical figure for young composers and gave advice to all who asked him.
		Rossini fell seriously ill in September 1868 and died, in the arms of a desperate, loving Olympe, on 13th November.
	www.operaitaliana.com /opera_italiana/opere.asp-id=2&Lingua=1.htm (1714 words)

	University Productions Presents - La Cenerentola
		His father, the town trumpeter, and his mother, a singer, encouraged their son's musical talents; from an early age, Gioacchino was an accomplished performer on the harpsichord, violin, and piano, as well as a boy soprano in the opera.
		Rossini is known for the unsurpassed brilliance of his comic invention and both the melodiousness and floridity of his vocal writing." La Cenerentola" is no exception to these rules, in fact it emphasizes them.
		Gioacchino Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy, on February 29, l792.
	www.music.umich.edu /performances_events/productions/past/01-02/uprod-cinderella.html (2553 words)

	Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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, the opera resounds with Rossini’s brilliant arias, ensemble numbers, and his famous crescendos.
		In 1824, Rossini became the director of the Théâtre-Italien in Paris.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ro/Rossini.html (236 words)

	Rossini
		Both Gioacchino's parents were musicians, his father a horn player, his mother a singer.
		Two operas for Milan were less successful, but in 1815 Rossini went to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro S Carlo, which led to a concentration on serious opera.
		Barbaia gave a Viennese season in 1822; Rossini and his wife returned to Bologna, then in 1823 left for London and Paris where he took on the directorship of the Theatre-ltalien, composing for that theatre and the Opera.
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/Rossini.htm (530 words)

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		Gioacchino Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1792.
		Rossini's father was a notable horn player and his mother was was an opera singer.
		Rossini is still known today for his comic operas, which were the last classic examples of their kind, his opera seria, appropriate instrumentation, and imaginative use of rhythm to create a wit, speed, and grace that is characteristically Rossini!
	courses.wcupa.edu /frichmon/mue332/lisalloyd/llloyd.htm (611 words)

	"Gioacchino Rossini"..Free pictures, biography, history, jokes, music and video operas downloads
		Gioacchino Rossini was suspected of a certain laziness, and many popular stories might sound as a confirmation.
		I.e., he was supposed to have composed his best known "Barbiere" in a very short time, because as usual he was late in respecting the delivery date.
		However, all the work was done with Rossini in his bedroom, wearing his dressing-gown.
	ring.mithec.com /side/rossini.html (854 words)

	Stabat Mater - Rossini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868) was born in Pesaro, Italy.
		In view of his background of composing mainly comic operas the few religious compositions of Rossini (Petit Messe Solenelle, Stabat Mater) are sometimes criticized as less serious.
		The Rossini Stabat Mater was recorded in November 1982.
	www.stabatmater.dds.nl /rossini.html (444 words)

	Gioacchino Rossini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His contemporaries recognized him as the greatest Italian composer of his time." His achievements in opera caused the work of his predecessors to be forgotten, his contemporaries, Bellini and Donizetti, worked under his shadow, and even Beethoven, piqued by his international recognition, resorted to catty and snide remarks about him.
		Rossini composed over 40 operas, and though today he is probably best known for the overtures to a handful of comic operas, he is historically more important as a composer of opera seria.
		As a student, Rossini was extremely interested in the works of Mozart and Haydn.
	www.fuguemasters.com /rossini.html (402 words)

	Biography of Gioacchino Rossini - PianoParadise
		But any critical feeling on the part of the public was drowned by appreciation of such melodies as "Mi rivedrai, ti rivèdrô" and "Di tanti palpiti," the former of which became so popular that the Italians would sing it in crowds at the law courts until called upon by the judge to desist.
		Gioacchino Rossini: Duetto Buffo Di Fue Gatti - "Cat Duet" Composed by Gioacchino Rossini, edited by Carl Stueber.
		Gioacchino Rossini: Serate Musicali (Soirees Musicales) - Parte I - 8 Ariette (per Canto e Pianoforte) Composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868).
	www.pianoparadise.com /rossini.html (2152 words)

	Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 - 1868) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rossini occupied an unrivalled position in the Italian musical world of his time, winning considerable success relatively early in his career.
		The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy he had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra pit and on stage.
		The so-called Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) consist of thirteen volumes of varied music, some vocal, some instrumental, five of the collections designed for the piano, pieces that demonstrate both the well known wit of the composer as well as his continuing technical command of musical resources.
	www.naxos.com /composer/rossini.htm (450 words)

	William Tell (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Schiller's Wilhelm Tell.
		However, today the opera is rarely performed in any language, and it is known mostly for its overture.
		William Tell was Rossini's final opera even though the composer lived happily between France and Italy for nearly another 40 years afterwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Tell_(opera) (263 words)

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