Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States.

She became a pupil of Antonio Bagioli of Cesena, Emilia – Romagna, and later of the composer Gioachino Rossini, when he was ' perpetual honorary adviser ' in ( and then the principal of ) the Liceo Musicale, now Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, in Bologna.

* Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer

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Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli ( September 7, 1791 – December 21, 1863 ) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome.

Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli was born in Rome to a family belonging to the lower bourgeoisie.

Slightly smaller string works with the double bass include six string sonatas by Gioachino Rossini, for two violins, cello, and double bass written at the age of twelve over the course of three days in 1804.

* 1792 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer ( d. 1868 )

Photograph of Gioachino Rossini ( Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin )

Portrait of Gioachino Rossini in 1820, International museum and library of music | International Museum and Library of Music, Bologna

Gioachino Rossini, painted c. 1815 by Vincenzo Camuccini

Gioachino Rossini, photographed by Félix Nadar, 1858

Gioachino Rossini, photographed by Étienne Carjat, 1865

Portrait of Gioachino Rossini by Francesco Hayez, 1870. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

When, in 1940, the Liceo was put under state control and turned into the Conservatorio Statale di Musica " Gioachino Rossini ", the corporate body to which Rossini ’ s inheritance had been conveyed, assumed the style of Fondazione G. Rossini.

* Gossett, Philip, " Rossini, Gioachino " in Grove Music Online.

* Gioachino Rossini biography

In 1869, Verdi was asked to compose a section for a requiem mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini and proposed that this requiem should be a collection of sections composed by other Italian contemporaries of Rossini.

Other operas based on the novel have been composed by Gioachino Rossini ( Ivanhoé ), Thomas Sari ( Ivanhoé ), Bartolomeo Pisani ( Rebecca ), A. Castagnier ( Rébecca ), Otto Nicolai ( Il Templario ), and Heinrich Marschner ( Der Templer und die Jüdin ).

Throughout his career, Paganini also became close friends with composers Gioachino Rossini and Hector Berlioz.

Gioachino Rossini | Rossini by Henri Grevedon

The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards ' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution ( Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L ' inutile precauzione ) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini.

* February 3, 1823 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.

* February 3 – Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide is first performed.

* February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.

* February 29-Composer Gioachino Rossini celebrates his 72nd ( 18th ) birthday with a party.

An intimate production of Gioachino Rossini's " The Marriage Contract " runs February 17 – 19, 2012 at The Jewel Box Theatre in the Scottish Rite Center is third in the season's lineup.

When Gioachino Rossini died in 1868, Verdi suggested that a number of Italian composers should collaborate on a Requiem in Rossini's honor, and began the effort by submitting the conclusion, Libera me.

Ottorino Respighi took works by Gioachino Rossini ( 1792 – 1868 ) and strung them together into a ballet called La Boutique fantasque, premiered in 1919.

In a narrower application, the term " bel canto " is sometimes attached exclusively to Italian opera of the time of Gioachino Rossini ( 1792 – 1868 ), Vincenzo Bellini ( 1801 – 1835 ) and Gaetano Donizetti ( 1797 – 1848 ).

Gioachino was called " Keno " for short.

Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera.

During his years in Italy Meyerbeer became acquainted with, and impressed by, the works of his contemporary Gioachino Rossini who by 1816, at the age of 24, was already director of both major opera houses in Naples and in the same year premiered his operas The Barber of Seville and Otello.

Gioachino Rossini, who came to his apartment the next day to meet him, not having heard the news, was shocked and fainted.

Many years earlier, Patti had experienced an amusing encounter in Paris with the bel canto-opera composer Gioachino Rossini, who was a staunch upholder of traditional Italian singing values.

In the 19th century, Gioachino Rossini wrote his setting after retiring from the composition of opera, while Antonín Dvořák wrote his setting when he was still active in writing secular music.

It was later the subject of analyses by leading players of the day Alessandro Salvio ( 1604 ), Don Pietro Carrera ( c. 1617 ), and Gioachino Greco ( 1623 ), and later Comte Carlo Francesco Cozio ( c. 1740 ).

It was mentioned in the Göttingen manuscript of 1490 and was later analysed by masters such as Gioachino Greco in the seventeenth century.

In the middle of the 19th century the repertoire was dominated by the popular French composers such as Halévy, Daniel Auber, and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and the Italian composers, Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini and Giuseppe Verdi who had considerable success in Paris.

Giovanni Paisiello's opera based on the play was first performed in 1782, but it is Gioachino Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville, premiered in 1816, that has better stood the test of time.

From 1815 to 1822, Gioachino Rossini was house composer and artistic director of the royal opera houses, including the San Carlo, and he wrote ten operas during this time.

Gioachino Greco ( c. 1600 – c. 1634 ) was an Italian chess player and writer.

The Finale or " cavalry charge " of the The William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini was used as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in the movies, serials, television and on radio and for Lark ( cigarette ) television commercials in the 1960s.

Pesaro is home of the Rossini Opera Festival, which has taken place every summer since 1980 as well as the Conservatorio Statale di Musica " Gioachino Rossini " which was founded with a legacy from the composer.

The name of the chain was widely used by Italian chainmakers inspired by the operas The Barber of Seville ( by Gioachino Rossini ) and The Marriage of Figaro ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ).

Le siège de Corinthe ( The Siege of Corinth ) is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini set to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, which was based on the reworking of some of the music from the composer's 1820 opera for Naples, Maometto II, the libretto of which was written by Cesare della Valle.

Tancredi is a melodramma eroico ( opera seria or ' heroic ' opera ) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi ( who was also to write Semiramide ten years later ), based on Voltaire's play Tancrède ( 1759 ).