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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Ballets to the music of Gioachino Rossini, Operas by Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville, Stabat Mater, Matilde di Shabran, Tancredi, William Tell, La Cenerentola, L'italiana in Algeri, Aureliano in Palmira, La donna del lago, Semiramide, List of operas by Rossini, La pietra del paragone, Armida, Il viaggio a Reims, Il turco in Italia, Zelmira, Le siege de Corinthe, La gazza ladra, Bianca e Falliero, Mose in Egitto, La scala di seta, Adina, Maometto II, Il signor Bruschino, La Danza, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Le comte Ory, L'occasione fa il ladro, Petite Messe Solennelle, Demetrio e Polibio, Robert Bruce, Ermione, La cambiale di matrimonio, List of compositions by Gioachino Rossini, L'equivoco stravagante, William Tell Overture, L'inganno felice, Ricciardo e Zoraide, Messa di Gloria, Otello, Duetto buffo di due gatti, Torvaldo e Dorliska, La gazzetta, Peches de vieillesse, Sigismondo, Eduardo e Cristina, Ciro in Babilonia, Pas de legumes, Adelaide di Borgogna, Ivanhoe, La regata veneziana. Excerpt: Rossini composed his Stabat Mater late in his career after retiring from the composition of opera. He began the work in 1831 but did not complete it until 1841. In 1831 Gioachino Rossini was traveling in Spain in the company of his friend the Spanish banker, Alexandre Aguado owner of Chateau Margaux. In the course of the trip, Fernandez Varela, a state councillor, commissioned a setting of the traditional liturgical text, the Stabat Mater. Rossini managed to complete part of the setting of the sequence in 1832, but ill health made it impossible for him to complete the commission. Having written only half the score (nos. 1 and 5-9), he asked his friend Giovanni Tadolini to compose six additional movements. Rossini presented the completed work to Varela as his own. It was premiered on Holy Saturday of 1833 in t...
