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Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who dominated opera in early 19th century Europe. He wrote almost 40 operas in just 20 years, helping to establish the five-part structure that defined Italian opera numbers. His 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville became one of the most famous and popular works in the genre. Rossini also composed the serious French grand opera William Tell in 1829, combining French and Italian styles. He then retired from composition at the height of his success and influence, having refined the bel canto vocal style and established forms that dominated opera for decades.

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Rossini

Gioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who dominated opera in early 19th century Europe. He wrote almost 40 operas in just 20 years, helping to establish the five-part structure that defined Italian opera numbers. His 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville became one of the most famous and popular works in the genre. Rossini also composed the serious French grand opera William Tell in 1829, combining French and Italian styles. He then retired from composition at the height of his success and influence, having refined the bel canto vocal style and established forms that dominated opera for decades.

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Rossini & Early 19th Century Italian Opera Giaocchino Rossini [1792-1868] : o meteoric career, wrote almost 40 operas

s in 20 years- grand opera, serious opera, comic operas [opera buffe] o For more than 50 years, musical forms of Italian opera followed the patterns imposed largely by Rossini; but his own music was Classical in a way that to some seemed inappropriate for the new subject matter o Five-part structure of Italian opera numbers [arias or ensembles] as essentially defined by Rossini [see NAWM, pp 594-595 1 scena [recitative] introducing text aria are set to metered rhymed poetry recitative is sent to prose text o people realize that things happen during this 2 tempo dattacco [transitional passage in unrhymed verse] 3 cantabile [slow, lyrical closed form] 4 tempo di mezzo [fast transitional passage in unrhymed verse, showing some kind of change in the drama] 5 cabaletta [faster, brilliant closed form, usually in a steady rhythm] o Rossini, Guillaume Tell [William Tell, 1829] Serious opera written in French for Paris Opera, brought together French grand opera with Italian lyricism Rossini had a refined & aristocratic sensibility that seemed to some inappropriate to the melodrama demanded by the new grand opera audiences Act 4, Scene 1 of Guillaume Tell: Arnolds aria Asile hereditaire.Amis, amis, secondez ma vengeance Scena: non mi lasciare, o speme di vendetta Cantabile: Asile hereditaire Tempo di mezzo: Vengeance! Quel espoir, jentends des cris dalarmes Cabaletta: Amis, amis secondez ma vengeance Rossini retired from composing after writing William Tell, & devoted himself to cooking & eating Il barbiere di Siviglia [the Barber of Seville, 1816]: the most famous & popular of all comic operas Rossini instrumental in developing style of bel canto: elegant style of beautiful song in early 19th century, characterized by lyricism, technical fluency, & florid delivery; voice as the paramount element Patter style from comic arias; rapidly delivered & clever lines, often with much repetition, sung with great speed & precision NAWM 137: Rosinas Una voce poco fa from Barber of Seville [act II, Scene 5] A double aria in two sections [rather that the standard five]: a lyrical cavatina & a faster, brilliant conclusion [the cabaletta] the cabaletta shows Rosina as both loving (bel canto element) and as trickster (rapid passagework)

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