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ItOSSINI.

The following Menmir of this celebrated Com-
poser may not he uninteresting to our Readers. It.
is extracted from M. de STEDIM'S amusing Life
of this extraordinary Tklmpica I C enitis; whose recent
arrival lit this country lifts created so strong a sen-
sation among the frequenters of the Opera :

. .
On the 29th of February 1791 Rossini was born at Pesaro,
a pretty little town in the Papal States, on the Gulf of Venice.
His father was a poor player on the French horn of the third
rank; one of those perambulating symphonists, who get their
living by visiting the fairs of Sinigaglie, Fenno, Forli, and
other little towns in Romagaia and he neighbourhood ; tied
forming a part of the little impromptu orchestra, which are
~
col-
lected for the Opera of the fair. His another, who had once
been handsome, was a tolerable second° ,donaa ; they went from
town to town, and from compor to company ; the husband
-:'
4"l' singing
playing in. theanchestra, the wi e on -the stags-poor,.
-of course; and Rossini their son, covered with glory, with name
which resounded- throughout Europe, faithful to the paternal
poverty, had not laid by for his whole stock'two years ago,
when he went to Vienna, a stun equal to the -annual salary of
one of the actresses who sing at Paris or at Lisbon. -
Living is cheap at Pesaro, and although his family subsisted
on very uncertain-means, they were never sorrowall, and, above
all, cared little for the future. In 1709,- Itoeini's parents took
him to Bologna ; but lie did not. begin to study music until
1004, when he was twelve years years of age. Ilis master was
D. Angelo Tesel. •In the course of a ' few months the young
Gioacchino earned several /well by singing in the churches.—
' His fine soprano voice and the vivacity of hit;.yoothful manners
rendered him very welcothe to the priests who directed theFaii-
eionf. • Under Professor Angelo Tesci, Gloacchino was well in..
structed in singing, in the art of aeconmanying, and in the rules
of counterpoint. From the year 1800 he wee capable of singing
any piece of music at sight, and great hopes began 'to be eater.
taineti of him. His handsome figure induced the idta of mak-
ing a tenor of him.
In IBM Rosalnl quitted Bologna to undertake a musical
tour in Romagna. , He presided at the piano, aeleader of the
orchestra at some of the smaller towns, and in• 1807 entered
the Lyceum at Bologna, and received leSsons of music from
Father Stenialao Mattei. A year subsequently, he was qua-
lified to compose a symphony and a cantata calkd 11 Piano
d'Arnwnia. It was his first production of vocal music. Im-
mediately afterwards he was elected a Director of the /Wade.
my of Contordi.
Being by the interest of a very amiable female sent to Venice,
in 11110, he there composed for the theatre San Mose a little
opera in one act, called La Canadair de llfakintonk Return-
mg to Bologna, in the autumn of the following year, he pre-
pared L'F,quivoco Shavagants for representation; and then
revisiting Venice, produced for the Carnival 'of 1612, L'in-
gamic Felice. In every part of this Opera his genius sparkles.
An experienced eve can recognize without difficulty in it the
parent ideas of fifteen or twenty capital pieces, which, at a
i later period, established the character of Rossini's chefs
Wctuvre. ..
At the Carnival of Venice in 1013, Rossini produced Tan-
eredi. This delightful piece wits so successful as to create a
kind of' musical furor. From the gondolier to the nobleman,
every body was repeating "Mi rwedrai ii rivedrd." in the
very Courts of law the judges were obliged to impose silence
' on the persons present, who were singing ‘Mi tieedrai fief.
' vedraf.". The.dilatana all declared that their Cimarosa had
revisited the world. The charming opera of Taacredi made
the tour of Europe in four years.
• "No one can doubt,"-says M. de Standhall, " that in such
. a place as Venice, Rossini was as happy as a maim, as he was
• ' celebrated as a composer. In a short time, La ....e.--, the' charts.
' ing-:bitini singer, then in the flower of her genius and her youth,
tore.him from the great ladies, his early protectors. He was
called very ungrateful, and many tears were shed on his ac-
count. On this subject an anecdote is told fiill of incident, and
very entertaining, which places in a strong light I tossini's dar-
ing; and lively character, and the case wiii wli.ll he adopted
decided resolutions t but really I cannot publish this anecdote.
Whatever changes [might make in the names of the parties,
' to defeat the curious, it is a story so replete with extraordinary
circumstances, that every body in Italy would know the actors
in it. Let us wait a few years. It is said, that La M— nut
to be behind hand•with
.Rossini, sacrificed Prince Lucien lima.
parte to him." In the autumn of 1812,' when 21 years of age,
Rossini was engaged at Milan. Ile composed for La Scala,
La Pietro. di Paeugoric, (not known in this country) his chef.
d'ostivre in the bun style.
After all this success, Rossini revisited Pesaro and 'his
family, to which he was psssionately attached. During his
absence his sole correspondent had been his mother, his letters
to whom he addressed, " To the most honoured Signora Ros.
sini, mother of the celebrated composer in Bologna." Such,
adds his biographer, " is the character of the man ; half' Seri.
0111, half laughing. [hippy in his genius., in the midst at' the
most susceptible people in Europe, intoxicated with praise from
his very infancy, he, is conscious of his own glory, and clots
not see why Rossini shollid not naturally, anti wi. hold. con«
cession, hold the same rank us a General of divisiun, or a :Ili.
'lister of State. The latter has drawn a great tirly.., in the lot?
tery of ambitiOn. Rossini has drawn aa,et'eat Pd-t, i., the lot
tery of nature. This phrase is his own.
The severe critics of •Bologna charged Rossini with trans.
greasing the rules of competition, . He. Agreed yid, them, " I
should not have so many faults to reproach myself with (said
he) if I wre to • read my manuscript eyelet over. But yoti
~
know that I have scarcely six weeks given rue to
.compose an
opera in. During the first month I amuse myself—and pray
when would you have me amuse myself, if not at my present
age and with my present success ? Ought Ito wait till 1 inn
old and full of spleen ? The last fortnight comes, however 1....
• •
every morning I write a duet, or an air, which is rehearsed in
the evening. How isit possible that I can perceive an error in
the accompaniments ?" The'aceusatiowwits repeated in Paris,
by M. Deno. of the institute, who made acomparison between
• Rossini and .Mozart, disadvantageous to the former. This pro.
duced a very animated reply from M. de Stendhall, and a fa-
rions paper wat,ensueti. •
Some time afterwards poor Rossini experienced at. Bologna a
more serious embarrassment than any the critics had occasion-
ed him. , A Milan mistress 'of his, abandou.mg her palace, her.
husband, and her children, her reputation, arrived early one
morning in his email apartment at en humble inn. The first
moments were very tender ; 'hut presently the most telebrat-
ed. and the most beautiful woman of Bologna (the Princess
G.-----,) also made lire. appearance ! Itoiisint laughed at both,
sung a buff's air to them, and left them in the lurch—tat : Mu.
,rieei ilfeteheath ! . -
From Bologna Rossini. was engaged tn.ViSit all the towns in
Italy where there was • athentre. Ile • composed five .or six
Operas in a year, for each of which he . received 800 or 1000
francs. The difficulties with which he had to struggle in com-
bating with the caprices of the various singers were numerous,
and the relation of them by M. de Stendhal is highly enter-
taining. To compose was to him very easy t, to listen to the
rehearsals of' his compositions the greatest
pain. Every
where the performance 'el a' new Opera superseded for the
time every other occupation on the part of the inhabitants.
At the commencement of the overture a pin might be heard
to drop. When it finizhed, the most tremendous hublink
ensued. It was either praised to the skies, or kissed with-'
out mercy. The same took place after every air. It is only.
in Italy that the rapture and almost conclusive admiration of
music exists.
About the year 161,4 else :fame of Rossini readied Naples; the
inhabitants of which, with commendable self-complacency, were
astonished that there should be a great composer in the world
who wait not a Neapolitan. Rossini engaged ter produce for
the Neapolitan Theatres two Operas a year for several years. ,
The labour was immense ; he performed it laughingly, and
'ridiculed every body; which caused him •many enemies, of
whom' the most incensed at the present day is M. ilarbsja,
with whom he had engaged, and to whont he played the uncivil
trick of---manying his usherette !
• A fter the brilliant lamest of Elizabetla fiegina. d'Achil,
terra, a serious ,opera composed at Naples, in 18Ia' Rossini
went to Rime, and in the Carnival of 1010-,produced Torraldo
t Dorliska, and his chefd'o3ore, fl Barbieri di Striglia. He
re-appeared at Naples, and produced La Gazelle and after.
wards Otello, He then.went to Rouse fur let Ceneeentala ; and
to Milan far La flaz'za ladra. Scarcely had he returned to
Naples before he produced Valera/de.