Gioachino rossini biography of michael

Gioachino Rossini was an amiable, jovial character with an almost obsessive love of fine food. He is most celebrated for his sparkling comic operas. He was nicknamed ‘Signor Crescendo’ because of the trademark intensifying of sound he used in his music, and he became the most widely acclaimed and wealthy composer of his time.

But it was his many opere serie that proved to be more influential and historically significant. Their innovative style would dominate Italian opera for half a century.

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Rossini’s natural affinity for comedy may have stemmed from a boyhood spent playing viola in the orchestra for his parents' carnival tours. In 1806 he entered the Conservatorio di Bologna, where he developed a devotion to Mozart that remained with him for the rest of his life and is clearly evident in the operas he wrote.

After his studies, he worked in local theatres, composing additional arias for other people’s operas. Eventually, in 1812, he got a break with the sixth of his