Description
Autograph musical quotation signed, one page - on an album page, 10 x 5,5 inch, Bologna, 5.02.1851, musical quotation for pianoforte titled `Vivace` - 8 bars on a single system of two staves, written and signed in dark ink "Giachino Rossini", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Giachino Antonio Rossini in a half length portrait (altogether 11,75 x 16,5 inch), with browning - in fine condition. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 May 1996, lot 479.
A miniature composition for piano. Rossini was by now 16 years into the `Great Renunciation` - his astonishing abandonment of opera after `Guillaume Tell` in 1830. He had moved from Paris to Bologna in 1835, although by 1851, when he executed this brief composition on an album page, he was primarily based in Florence.
Further Information on the person
Profession:
(1792-1868) Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
Year of Birth: 1792
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