Composer
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
Rossini Operas
Read this article for an overview of the life and operatic success of Giacchino Rossini, a famous Italian operatic composer
Goiacchino Rossini is one of a few rare composers in the opera world that obtained full fame and fortune in his lifetime. Rossini's works are enjoyed today throughout the world as masterpieces of Italian theater, and his arias are routinely sung by professionals and amateurs alike. But how did this composer get his start? How do his other works relate to his operas? Read this article for an overview of the composer and his operatic works.
Rossini was born in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy, the son of a mother and father that were very involved in the orchestral and operatic world of Italy at the time. His family, once members of the opulaent Itlian upper class, were reduced in means when he arrived, but his father appears to have been a free-spirited, happy man who worked as the town crier and in various orchestras playing piano. His mother was an aspiring singer and dressmaker. His parents traveled quite a lot on performance tours, teaching Rossini the basic of rhythm and classical performance on piano. Piano, in particular, was his forte, due to an intense wish to please his mother in the instrument. From these roots, Rossini gained both his charm and his love of music.
Rossini was admitted into the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, where he excelled in viola, cello, singing and composition. His school in Bologna is still standing today, now called the G.B. Martini Conservatorio di Musica. School led to a commission in Venice to produce a small opera, which he did to much success. His life after this was very much on the road. He was a thoughtful composer, one with his parent's gift for charm, so he led a rakish, charmed life augmented by a primary respect of his peers and audience. Unlike many composers of his time, though, he was willing to rewrite a piece if the audience made suggestions. Rossini's greatest work had such an impact on his country that he was exempted from military service due to his talent alone. His various relations with nobles and royal families also led to an opulent lifestyle. Through an impresario friend in Naples, he met Isabella Colbran, his mistress and rumored to be his one great love. He married twice, and both marriages were happy ones.
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