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1792–1868 Italy
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29 1792 – November 13 1868) was an Italian composer who lived for much of his adult life in France. He is best remembered for the approximately 40 operas he wrote in his youth, though his chamber music and sacred works are also highly regarded by many.
Also known as: Rossini
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Music is a kind of harmonious language.
Simple melody and variety in rhythm.
This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.
Wait until the evening before opening night. Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair. In my time, all the impresarios in Italy were bald at thirty.
Give me the laundress' bill and I will set to music even that.
Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!
Dear God, here it is finished, this poor little Mass. Is this sacred music which I have written or music of the devil? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. A little science, a little heart, that's all. Be blessed, then, and admit me to Paradise.
Epigraph to his Petite Messe Solennelle (1863)
I take him [Beethoven] twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. You will tell me that Beethoven is a Colossus who often gives you a dig in the ribs, whilst Mozart is always adorable; it is that the latter had the chance of going very young to Italy, at a time when they still sang well.
Alfred Christlieb Kalischer Beethoven und seine Zeitgenossen (1908)
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