![]() ![]() But changes in Italian society allowed her to make a second career as a professional singer. Rossini’s mother Anna was, at the time of his birth in 1792, a seamstress by trade. ![]() (The adult Rossini liked to say that: “Sono figlio di corna,” “I am the son of a horn!”) Anna (née Guidarini) Rossini (1771-1827) “Son of a horn” he might have been, but when it came to his real musical education, it was as the son of an opera singer. Giuseppe Rossini (1758-1839) Rossini’s father Giuseppe was a professional trumpet and horn player, and as such was Gioachino’s first music teacher. He was the only child of Giuseppe Rossini (1758-1839) and Anna (née Guidarini) Rossini (1771-1827). He died of colorectal cancer on November 13, 1868, in his villa in Passy, which today is located in Paris’ chic, 16th arrondisement. Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) in 1815 by Vicenzo Camuccini The Natural Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born on February 29 (bummer of a birthday!), 1792 in the Italian city of Pesaro, on the Adriatic Sea. We mark the premiere performance, on Febru– 207 years ago today – of Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera masterwork, The Barber of Seville, at Rome’s famed Teatro Argentina. ![]()
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