Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39 operas, he also wrote many pieces of chamber music, piano, 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.
"Je le prends deux fois par semaine, Haydn quatre fois et Mozart tous les jours. Vous me direz, Beethoven est un colosse, qui vous donne souvent des coups de poing dans les côtes, tandisque Mozart est toujours adorable. Cest que lui a eu la chance daller très jeune en Italie à un époque, où lon chantait encore bien."
Gioachino Rossini"Datemi il conto della lavandaia e vi metterò in musica anche quello."
Gioachino Rossini"Melodia semplice e varietà nel ritmo."
Gioachino Rossini"Music is a kind of harmonious language."
Gioachino Rossini"Rossini, in music, is the genius of sheer animal spirits. It is a species as inferior to that of Mozart, as the cleverness of a smart boy is to that of a man of sentiment; but it is genius nevertheless."
Gioachino Rossini"Aspettate fino alla sera prima del giorno fissato per la rappresentazione. Nessuna cosa eccita più lestro come la necessità, la presenza dun copista, che aspetta il vostro lavoro e la ressa dun impresario in angustie, che si strappa a ciocche i capelli. A tempo mio in Italia tutti gli impresari erano calvi a trentanni."
Gioachino Rossini"Rossini, divino Maestro, Helios von Italien, der du deine klingenden Strahlen über die Welt verbreitest!"
Gioachino Rossini"Bon Dieu; la voilà terminée, cette pauvre petite messe. Est-ce bien de la musique sacrée que je viens de faire, ou bien de la sacré musique ? Jétais né pour lopera buffa, tu le sais bien! Peu de science, un peu de coeur, tout est là. Sois donc béni et accorde-moi le Paradis."
Gioachino Rossini"Cette petite composition qui est, hélas, le dernier péché mortel de ma vieillesse."
Gioachino Rossini"His moral deficiencies as an artist were quite extraordinary. When he found the natural superiority of his genius in conflict with the ignorance and frivolity of the public – and the musical ignorance and frivolity of the Venetians and Neapolitans can hardly be overstated – he surrendered without a struggle. Although he was so able a man that it was easier and pleasanter to him to do his work intelligently than to conventionalize it and write down to the popular taste, he never persevered in any innovation that was not well received."
Gioachino Rossini
