How many symphonies did rossini write

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As far as the overture goes, this one was clearly written after the opera had been completed. The manager had put me under the guard of four stagehands who were ordered to throw down the music pages, sheet by sheet, to copyist seated below. As the manuscript was copied, it was sent page by page to the conductor who then rehearsed the music.

If I had failed to keep the production going fast, my guards were instructed to throw me in person down to the copyists. However, the premiere on 20 February at the Teatro Argentina in Rome was a disaster! He was an opera-writing machine. Between and , Rossini wrote 30 operas, the majority of his lifetime output.

It is in the top five most performed operas in the current season with performances worldwide. His first wife was singer Isabella Colbran and Rossini wrote many parts for her in his operas, including the title role in Semiramide. At just 37 Rossini went into semi-retirement following his grand opera William Tell. He stopped composing operas but still wrote shorter musical works such as songs and piano pieces. As Rossini came of age, he risked being dragged off to fight in one of the many campaigns of the war.

So in , he requested permission from the son of the then deposed Empress Josephine to stay out of the Napoleonic wars. He was fortunate to have had a success with his first opera because he was granted a reprieve so that he could devote himself to his music.

Rossini had another great success with La pietra del paragone The Touchstone. It was first performed in and was filled with energetic and inventive music.

It was a lively satire that had a run of 53 performances in a single season at the famous Milanese theater, La Scala. As a result, Rossini received three times the amount he had received for his first opera. Rossini began to write music at a feverish pace. This last opera brought him European fame.

By the end of , Rossini had written fourteen operas. In Rossini moved to Naples, where he lived for the next seven years. Naples was a bustling city with several beautiful theaters and many enthusiastic theater-goers. There Rossini met the great Italian opera producer Domenico Barbaja. He also met the striking singer Isabella Colbran.

She was a leading soprano who favored grand, tragic roles. In March , Rossini married Isabella Colbran. Shortly thereafter, they traveled to Vienna for a Rossini festival that ran from April to July. In Venice in early , Rossini premiered one of his last Italian operas, Semiramide.