Who is Rossini?

The most popular opera composer of his time is Gioachino Antonio Rossini now much less known, with the exception of opera enthusiasts. Some people may know him only because of the re -transition of some of his music from his opera William Tell as the topic of the TV series The Lone Ranger , while others simply heard his name in Andrea Boccelli "I Love Rossini" of 1999 of 1999

. In 1792, a father who played a corner and mother who sang. His musical parents started his music training when he was young, and his first opportunity to show was playing a triangle in the band with his father. The family tolerated the separation after Rossini's father was imprisoned as a Napoleonic sympathizer during which he had some core teaching.

His musical studies advanced to the extent that at the age of 10 he sang the solos of the church. He took his father to play a corner, and his oldest existing songs come from when he was 12. It was like a young growerOut of 13 or 14 years, when he first set music based on a libretto, and although it was not done later, this work, Demetrio e kolibio was his first opera.

At the end of his adolescent years, the last of which was spent in Bologna, he learned cello, received the price for the cantata and let the opera be performed, although not the one he wrote first. His songs had an immediate popular attraction. Before returning to Bologna, he spent some time writing operas in Venice and Milan, where he became the music director of two theaters in Naples.

Rossini created 20 operas between 1815 and 1823, including Il Barbiere di Siviglia or Holler Sevilla, whom he said in 12 days. Flop at its first performance due to rivalry with existing opera with difference libretto, but draws on the same initial source, Pierre beaumarchais' game le baRBIER de séville . This lack of enthusiasm did not last long and the work became his most durable hit. Another remarkable work of this period was la cerentiterola or Cinderella.

After spent a short time in Verona and visited England, Rossini became the music director of the Paris Théâtre-Italien and subsequently the main composer of the King of the French. 1829 meant both the production of Guillaume Tell or William Tell , his last opera, his return to Bologna. After writing Stabat Mater basically left the composition.

The end of his life was spent in Paris, after spending some time in Florence, and in Paris gave more rule to his pleasure both cooking and eating, lenting his name to several dishes, including Tournedos Rossini. In the end, he returned to the composition, but focused on small pieces for private performance. Died in France in 1868.