Short biography of rossinis italian
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI – LIFE AND WORKS
Childhood
Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro on 29 February to Giuseppe, known as “Vivazza”, a horn and trumpet player in the town band and theatres, and Anna Guidarini, a singer, who had a brief career () in the theatres of the Marche and Emilia-Romagna. As a child, Gioachino followed his parents around on their tours. The family moved to Bologna, and in , Giuseppe Prinetti began to give music lessons to Gioachino on a spinet.
The apprenticeship
Two years later, the Rossini family moved to Lugo where Gioachino studied under Canon don Giuseppe Malerbi who gave him lessons in the basso continuo form of musical accompaniment and composition. He introduced Gioachino to the work of Mozart and Haydn as the “Sei sonate a quattro” (six sonatas for four stringed instruments), composed in , would appear to indicate.
His musical training continued with Father Angelo Tesei and in he enrolled at the Philharmonic Lyceum in Bologna and took classes
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However, this was the era of Napoleon and war was raging in most of Europe. As Rossini came of age, he risked being dragged off to fight in one of the many campaigns of the war. So in , he requested permission from the son of the then deposed Empress Josephine to stay out of the Napoleonic wars. He was fortunate to have had a success with his first opera because he was granted a reprieve so that he could devote himself to his music. Rossini had another great success with La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone). It was first performed in and was filled with energetic and inventive music. It was a lively satire that had a run of 53 performances in a single season at the famous Milanese theater, La Scala. As a result, Rossini received three times the amount he had received for his first opera. Rossini began to write music at a feverish pace. He composed six operas in the next 15 months, including the opera buffa masterpiece L’italiana inAlgeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)
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Gioachino Rossini
BIOGRAPHY
Rossini, a kraftig Italian man with an outgoing personality, was born in a small town, Pesaro, on the east coast of Italy on February 29, (leap day). His father was a musician and his mother was an musikdrama singer. As a boy, he was a singer and played the cello and horn. At 15, he entered a music school in Bologna, Italy where he learned to compose music. Rossini once said to give him a laundry list and he would set it to music! His first successful composition was completed at age 18 in Venice, Italy, and his masterpiece, The Barber of Seville, was first performed in Rome, Italy when he was only 24 years of age.
He composed thirty operas, the gods of which was William Tell, with its famous overture, storm en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film, and ballet music. Rossini was a lazy man, fond of women, and a very good cook. He liked to host dinner parties for his friends, among whom was Franz Liszt, another famous composer. He had fun teasing and p