Rossini

Gioachino Rossini · Italian opera composer (1792–1868) · 1792–1868

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Summary

Dominique Pagani associates Rossini with bel canto put at the service of comedy and "buffo extraversion"1 2. He compares it to a lime sorbet and recalls that in Vienna this style overshadowed Beethoven3. He returns several times to Hegel listening to The Barber of Seville in Vienna: in the same session, he first says that Hegel laughed with happiness, then that he wept with it4 5. In the humour of Italian opera he sees a way of bearing the times6 7. He also points out the symmetry between The Turk in Italy and The Italian Girl in Algiers, and stresses the rare virtuosity that the comic bass role demands8. Finally, Rossini comes up in questions of social and worldly history: he mentions Il viaggio a Reims, written for the coronation of Charles X9, and names him among the Italians performed in Paris10.

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Who is this?

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) 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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