Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini Scott 1695 (2018) Born February 27th, 1792, Gioachino Antonio Rossini was the child of musical parents. His father was a trumpeter, and his mother was a singer. No wonder he ended up writing 39 operas, many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He gained the most success before he was in his thirties, then withdrew from opera for the last 40 years of his life. Rossini was one of the most gifted Italian operatic composers. Of his works such as The Barber of Seville, Italian Girl in Algiers, Thieving Magpie, Cinderella, and William Tell, opera historian Milton Cross writes that Rossini and other composers from Mozart to Beethoven to Donizetti and Weber composed in an era that pulsed with the new spirit of romanticism and nationalism. Rossini died in Paris in 1868 and his body was interred at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. In 1887 his remains were moved to the church of Santa Croce, Florence. The Rossini stamp issue was designed by artist Daniela Fusco and incorporated images from both the Thieving Magpie and William Tell operas. When this stamp was released, the Vatican Post Office also sold a CD of Rossini music that could be purchased in addition to the stamps. The stamps were issued in a sheet of ten. Gioacchino Rossini Tomb Santa Croce Basilica Florence Italy References Wikipedia, Gioachino Rossini Gioacchino Rossini tomb photograph is from the photo collection of Marvin Lanahan