Gioachino Rossini

Anno di nascita

1792

Anno di morte

1868

Nazionalità

Italian

Epoca

Romantic

Opere

Arie

Periodo di composizione

1813 – 1828

Luogo di nascita

Pesaro

Luogo di morte

Passy

Lingua delle opere

Italian · 36
French · 6

Voci delle arie

micbaritone · 1
miccontralto · 1

Sintesi da Wikipedia

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39 operas, he also wrote many pieces of chamber music, piano, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.

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Vita di Gioachino Rossini

Nazionalità e periodo

Gioachino Rossini è un compositore Italian del periodo Romantic, vissuto dal 1792 al 1868, nato a Pesaro e morto a Passy.

Maestri e formazione

Gioachino Rossini studiò con Stanislao Mattei — formazione che ne plasmò il linguaggio compositivo.

Allievi e discepoli

Tra gli allievi di Gioachino Rossini: Marietta Alboni, Adolphe Nourrit, Anna de La Grange.

Vita e carriera

Rossini was born on 29 February in 1792 in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy that was then part of the Papal States. He was the only child of Giuseppe Rossini, a trumpeter and horn player, and his wife Anna, née Guidarini, a seamstress by trade, daughter of a baker. Giuseppe Rossini was charming but impetuous and feckless; the burden of supporting the family and raising the child fell mainly on Anna, with some help from her mother and mother-in-law. Stendhal, who published a colourful biography of Rossini in 1824, wrote: Rossini's portion from his father, was the true native heirship of an Italian: a little music, a little religion, and a volume of Ariosto. The rest of his education was consigned to the legitimate school of southern youth, the society of his mother, the young singing girls of the company, those prima donnas in embryo, and the gossips of every village through which they passed. This was aided and refined by the musical barber and news-loving coffee-house keeper of the Papal village. Giuseppe was imprisoned at least twice: first in 1790 for insubordination to local authorities in a dispute about his employment as town trumpeter; and in 1799 and 1800 for republican activism and support of the troops of Napoleon against the Pope's Austrian backers. In 1798, when Rossini was aged six, his mother began a career as a professional singer in comic opera, and for a little over a decade was a considerable success in cities including Trieste and Bologna, befo…

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Contributo all’opera

Gioachino Rossini ha lasciato 44 opere registrate in Wikidata, con 4 arie principali descritte in pagine dedicate.

Cronologia delle opere di Gioachino Rossini

6 opere rappresentate in 2 decenni di attività compositiva, raggruppate qui per decade di prima rappresentazione:

1810s · 5 opere

1820s · 1 opere

1828William Tell

Compositori contemporanei di Gioachino Rossini

Altri compositori del database nati nella stessa generazione di Gioachino Rossini (1792) — utile per collocare l’opera in un contesto generazionale:

Gaetano Donizetti
1797–1848 · Italian · Romantic
Vincenzo Bellini
1801–1835 · Italian · Romantic
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869 · France · Romantic

Arie principali di Gioachino Rossini

Calumny is a little breeze — The Barber of Seville (1816)
Ecco, ridente in cielo — The Barber of Seville (1816)
Largo al factotum — The Barber of Seville (1816) · baritone
Una voce poco fa — The Barber of Seville (1816) · contralto

Fonte dei dati

Biografia ed elenco delle opere provenienti da Wikidata (CC0, pubblico dominio).

Wikidata Q9726 open_in_new