Ironically, Salieri's music was much more in the tradition of Gluck and Gassmann than of the Italians like Paisiello or Cimarosa.

Traces of Ferdinando Paer and Giovanni Paisiello were undeniably present in fragments of the music.

In 1772 Paisiello began to write church music, and composed a requiem for Gennara di Borbone, of the reigning dynasty.

When, in 1816, Gioachino Rossini set a revised version of the libretto to music, under the title of " Almaviva ossia la inutil precauzione " the fans of Paisiello stormed the stage.

Paisiello also wrote a great deal of church music, including eight masses ; as well as fifty-one instrumental compositions and many stand-alone songs.

Taking this as an opportunity to research the music Napoleon would have heard, Davis also used folk music from Corsica, French revolutionary songs, a tune from Napoleon's favorite opera ( Nina by Giovanni Paisiello ) and pieces by other classical composers who were active in France in the 18th century.

* Il re Teodoro in Venezia ( music by Giovanni Paisiello, 1784 )

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

Paisiello was a Neapolitan court composer, but at the time of the play he was under suspicion for anti-Royalist sympathies, making him a highly unlikely candidate for Maria Carolina's gathering in Act 2.

The " thema regium " appears as the theme for the first and last movements of the 7th Sonata in D Minor by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, written in about 1788, and also as the theme for elaborate variations by Giovanni Paisiello in his " Les Adieux de la Grande Duchesse ds Russies ," written in about 1784, upon his departure from the court of Catherine the Great.

* Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great

When Paisiello came to the court Kelly witnessed his meeting with Mozart.

In this, his style is consistent with that of other Italian composers such as Paisiello, Rossini and Donizetti, who were influenced by the guitar-song milieu of Naples during this period.

His output was exceeded by his contemporaries Draghi, Piccinni, Paisiello, Guglielmi, and the most prolific of all, with 166 operas, Wenzel Müller ; the only composer of later generations who approached his output was Offenbach 100 years later.

La Fenice was inaugurated on May 16, 1792, with an opera by Giovanni Paisiello entitled I giuochi d ' Agrigento ( libretto by Alessandro Pepoli ).

The barcarole was a popular form in opera, where the apparently artless sentimental style of the folklike song could be put to good use: in addition to the Offenbach example, Paisiello, Weber, and Rossini wrote arias that were barcaroles, Gaetano Donizetti set the Venetian scene at the opening of Marino Faliero ( 1835 ) with a barcarole for a gondolier and chorus, and Verdi included a barcarole in Un ballo in maschera ( i. e., Richard's atmospheric " Di ’ tu se fidele il flutto m ’ aspetta " in Act I ).

* Italian Opera Arias: Arias by Broschi, Leoncavallo, Monteverdi, Paisiello and Rossini, with conductor Mario Bernardi, CBS 1978.

The poet Giovanni Battista Casti also arrived, and in 1784 with Paisiello produced a new opera Il re Teodoro in Venezia: in the cast including Mandini, Benucci, Bussani, Laschi, Storace and Viganoni, Kelly took the buffo role of Gaforio, which became his nickname thereafter.

At the concert, Mozart opened matters with the first three movements of this symphony, an aria from Idomeneo ( described in his letter to his father of March 29 that year as his Munich opera ), a piano concerto, a scena ( a genre related to the concert aria ), the concertante movements of one of his recent serenades, his piano concerto K. 175 ( with a new finale )— and another scena ( from an opera he'd composed for Milan ); at this point he improvised a fugue " because the Emperor was present " and then two sets of variations ( K. 398 on an aria by Paisiello and K. 455 on an aria by Gluck ).

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time, Rossini's later version alone has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire.

In 1776 Paisiello was invited by the empress Catherine II of Russia to St Petersburg, where he remained for eight years, producing, among other charming works, his masterpiece, Il barbiere di Siviglia, which soon attained a European reputation.

On his arrival at Naples Paisiello was reinstated in his former appointments by Joseph Bonaparte and Joachim Murat, but he had taxed his genius beyond its strength, and was unable to meet the demands now made upon it for new ideas.

Paisiello is known to have composed 94 operas, which are known for their gracefully beautiful melodies.

In one view, the work is said to have been premiered by Mozart's student, Barbara Ployer, on June 13, 1784 at a concert to which Mozart had invited Giovanni Paisiello to hear both her and his new compositions, including also his recently-written Quintet in E flat for Piano and Winds.

* Giovanni Paisiello – Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major

* Giovanni Paisiello – Requiem for Gennara di Borbone

However, many of the audience were supporters of one of Rossini's rivals, Giovanni Paisiello, who played on " mob mentality " to provoke the rest of the audience to dislike the opera.

Beaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello.

An opera based on the play had previously been composed by Giovanni Paisiello, another was composed in 1796 by Nicolas Isouard and by Francesco Morlacchi in 1816.

In particular, Paisiello and his followers were opposed to the use of basso buffo, which is common in comic opera.

Rossini's opera, now known as Il barbiere di Siviglia, is now acknowledged as Rossini's greatest work, while Paisiello's opera is only infrequently produced — a strange instance of poetical vengeance, since Paisiello himself had many years previously endeavoured to eclipse the fame of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by resetting the libretto of his famous intermezzo, La serva padrona.

The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music notes that " Paisiello was one of the most successful and influential opera composers of his time.

Paisiello was primarily an opera composer.

*** Il barbiere di Siviglia ( Paisiello ), the opera by Paisiello based on Beaumarchais ' play

As a Corsican, Napoleon's cultural background was Italian, and he loved the opera buffa of composers like Paisiello and Cimarosa.

The Neapolitan school of opera composers included Feo, Porpora, Traetta, Piccinni, Vinci, Anfossi, Durante, Jommelli, Cimarosa, Paisiello, Zingarelli, and Gazzaniga.

Nina, o sia La pazza per amore ( Nina, or the Girl Driven Mad by Love ) is an opera, described as a commedia in prosa ed in verso per musica, in two acts by Giovanni Paisiello to an Italian libretto by Giambattista ( also Giovanni Battista ) Lorenzi after Giuseppe Carpani's translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier's Nina, ou La folle par amour, set by Nicolas Dalayrac in 1786.

* Nina ( opera ), by Giovanni Paisiello

Theodore is the subject of an opera by G. Paisiello, Il Re Teodoro in Venezia ( 1784, Vienna ).

* Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine