
- •Rossini, Gioachino (Antonio)
- •1. Early years.
- •2. First period, 1810–13.
- •3. From ‘Tancredi’ to ‘La gazza ladra’.
- •4. Naples and the opera seria, 1815–23.
- •5. Europe and Paris, 1822–9.
- •6. Retirement.
- •7. A new life.
- •8. Reputation.
- •Cantatas, incidental music, hymns and choruses
- •Miscellaneous vocal
- •Instrumental
- •Péchés de vieillesse (1857–68)
- •Other late works
- •Miscellaneous
- •Adaptations involving rossini's participation
- •Works not traced or of uncertain authenticity sacred
- •Other vocal
- •Instrumental
- •Bibliography
- •A: source materials
- •B: memoirs by contemporaries
- •C: principal biographies
- •D: general historical literature
- •E: general musical studies
- •F: studies of individual works
- •(I) Overtures
- •(II) Operas, 1810–14
- •(III) Neapolitan operas, 1815–22
- •(IV) Non-Neapolitan operas, 1815–23
- •(V) Operas, 1824–9
- •(VI) Non-operatic works
Other late works
MSS in I-PESr unless otherwise stated
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Canone scherzosa a quattro soprani democratici, 4 S, pf
Canone antisavant (Rossini), 3vv
Canzonetta ‘La vénitienne’, C, pf; QR xviii, 33–45
Petite promenade de Passy à Courbevoie, C, pf
Une réjouissance, a, pf; QR xviii, 46–51
Encore un peu de blague, C, pf; QR xviii, 52–4
Tourniquet sur la gamme chromatique, ascendante et déscendante, C, pf; QR xviii, 55–62
Ritournelle gothique, C, pf; QR xviii, 63
Un rien (pour album): Ave Maria, S, pf; QR xi, 60
Pour album: Sogna il guerrier (Metastasio), Bar, pf
Brindisi ‘Del fanciullo il primo canto’, B, chorus
Solo per violoncello, a; QR vi, 9–17 [with added pf acc.]
L'ultimo pensiero (‘Patria, consorti, figli’) (L.F. Cerutti), Bar, ?pf, B-Bmichotte*
Rossini, Gioachino: Works
Miscellaneous
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Teodora e Ricciardino, introduction to opera, sketched c1815, I-PESr*
Gorgheggi e solfeggi, studies, 1v, pf, c1827 (Paris, 1827)
15 petits exercises, 1v, 1858 (Paris, c1880)
Petit gargouillement, exercise, 1v, 1867, F-Po*
Giovinetta pellegrina, variations on a romance by N. Vaccai, ed. in Cronaca musicale, xvi (1912)
Vocal variants, cadenzas etc. for Rossini's operas, B-Bmichotte*, F-Po*, I-Mc*, US-Cu*, NYpm*, and elsewhere
Miscellaneous autograph albumleaves in private and public collections
Rossini, Gioachino: Works
Adaptations involving rossini's participation
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Ivanhoé (op, E. Deschamps and G.-G. de Wailly), Paris, Odéon, 15 Sept 1826, MS excerpts in GB-Lbl*, fs (Paris, 1826) [adapted by A. Pacini from several of Rossini's operas]
Robert Bruce (op, A. Reyer and G. Vaëz), PO, 30 Dec 1846 (Paris, 1847) [adapted by A.-L. Niedermeyer from several of Rossini's operas, esp. La donna del lago]
Rossini, Gioachino: Works
Works not traced or of uncertain authenticity sacred
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Miserere, solo vv, chorus, orch; fs (Leipzig, 1831) as Trost und Erhebung
Dixit Domino, solo vv, chorus, orch, I-Mc
Other vocal
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Aria di Filippuccio (‘Il secreto se si perde’), buffo v, orch, ed. (Trieste, 1892)
La calabrese (‘Colla lanterna magica’), S, A, pf, I-Vc
Duetto buffo di due gatti, 2 solo vv, pf, I-PESr; QR iv, 1–4 (spurious)
Ariette de Perruchini (‘Gondolier la mer t'appelle’), ‘arrangée en barcarolle par son ami R[ossini]’ and sung in C. Delavigne’s play Marino Faliero (Paris, c1829)
Quando giunse qua Belfior, S, orch, ?1824–35, I-FOc, ed. A. Garbelotto, 6 arie inedite (Padua, 1968)
Il rimprovero (‘Se fra le trecce d'Ebano’), S, pf, ed. (Florence, 1944)
Vieni sull'onde, S, T, pf, B-Bmichotte
L'absence (? Paris, n.d.), mentioned in Radiciotti (C1927–9), iii, 250; not traced
Il baco da seta, ?1862 (? Paris, 1862), mentioned in Montazio (C1862), 125; not traced