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Gioachino Rossini

1792 - 1868

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Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity. Born in Pesaro to parents who were both musicians (his father a trumpeter, his mother a singer), Rossini began to compose by the age of twelve and was educated at music school in Bologna. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gioachino Rossini is the 19th most popular composer (down from 18th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Italy (down from 46th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Composer.

Gioachino Rossini is most famous for his operas, which include The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algiers, and The Siege of Corinth.

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Among composers, Gioachino Rossini ranks 19 out of 1,451. Before him are Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Johann Strauss II, and Robert Schumann. After him are Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice Ravel, and Hector Berlioz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Gioachino Rossini ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius IX. After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, John Herschel, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William II of the Netherlands, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Among people deceased in 1868, Gioachino Rossini ranks 1. After him are Léon Foucault, James Buchanan, August Ferdinand Möbius, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, Tewodros II, August Schleicher, David Brewster, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, William T. G. Morton, and Franz Berwald.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gioachino Rossini ranks 79 out of 5,161. Before him are Mark Antony (-83), Saint Lucy (283), Lucretius (-94), Catherine de' Medici (1519), Pope Pius VIII (1761), and Vespasian (9). After him are Domitian (51), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Pope Pius VI (1717), Empedocles (-490), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), and Guglielmo Marconi (1874).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gioachino Rossini ranks 4. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), and Giacomo Puccini (1858). After him are Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Antonio Salieri (1750), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Guido of Arezzo (991).

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