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In the meantime, after years of various physical and mental illnesses, he had slowly returned to music, composing obscure little works intended for private performance.
These included his Péchés de vieillesse (" Sins of Old Age "), which are grouped into 14 volumes, mostly for solo piano, occasionally for voice and various chamber ensembles.
Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition.
They also underpin the fact that Rossini himself was an outstanding pianist whose playing attracted high praise from people such as Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Camille Saint-Saëns and Louis Diémer.

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