The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School

2. Orchestral Symphony. 1809

3. Quartet for Stringed Instruments. 1809

4. La Cambiale di Matrimonio. Opera, 1810

5. L'Equivoco Stravagante. Opera, 1811

6. Didone Abbandonata. Cantata, 1811

7. Demetrio e Polibio. Opera, 1811

8. L'Inganno Felice. Opera, 1812

9. Ciro in Babilonia. Opera, 1812

10. La Scala di Seta. Opera, 1812

11. La Pietra del Paragone. Opera, 1812

12. L'Occasione fa il Ladro. Opera, 1812

13. Il Figlio per Azzardo. Opera, 1813

14. Tancredi. Opera, 1813

15. L'Italiana in Algeri. Opera, 1813

16. L'Aureliano in Palmira. Opera, 1814

17. Egle e Irene. Cantata (unpublished), 1814

18. Il Turco in Italia. Opera, 1814

19. Sigismondo. Opera, 1814

20. Elisabetta. Opera, 1815

21. Torvaldo e Dorliska. Opera, 1816

22. Il Barbiere di Seviglia. Opera, 1816

23. La Gazella. Opera, 1816

24. Otello. Opera, 1816

25. Teti e Peleo. Cantata, 1816

26. Cenerentola. Opera, 1817

27. La Gazza Ladra. Opera, 1817

28. Armida. Opera, 1817

29. Adelaida di Borgagna. Opera, 1818

30. Mosè Opera, 1818

31. Adina. Opera (written for Lisbon), 1818

32. Ricciardo e Zoraïde. Opera, 1818

33. Ermoine. Opera, 1819

34. Eduardo e Cristina. Opera, 1819

35. La Donna del Lago. Opera, 1819

36. Cantata in honour of the King of Naples. 1819

37. Bianca e Faliero. Opera, 1820

38. Maometto II. Opera, 1820

39. Cantata in honour of the Emperor of Austria. 1820

40. Matilda di Shubrun. Opera, 1821

41. La Riconoscenza. Cantata, 1821

42. Zelmira. Opera, 1822

43. Il vero Omaggio. Cantata, 1822

44. Semiramide. Opera, 1823

45. Il Viaggio a Reims. Opera, 1825

46. Le Siège de Corinthe. Opera, 1826

47. Moïse. Opera, 1827

48. Le Comte Ory. Opera, 1828

49. Guillaume Tell. Opera, 1829

50. Les Soirées musicales. Douze morceaux de Chant, 1840

51. Quatre Ariettes Italiennes. 1841

52. Stabat Mater. 1842

53. La Foi, L'Espérance et la Charité. Trois Chœurs, 1843

54. Stances à Pie IX. 1847

55. Messe Solennelle. 1869

THE END

1

Cenni di una donna già cantante sopra il maestro Rossini.

2

Théâtres Lyriques de Paris, "L'Opéra, Italien," p. 317.

3

M. Azevedo (G. Rossini, sa Vie et ses Œuvres, par A. Azevedo) says that "Rossini, consulted as to the correctness of these figures, thought there must be an error of 100 scudi. He was under the impression that he had only received 300 scudi for the Barber."

4

A poet of our time, finding himself described on a title-page as the author of "words" which a composer had set to "music," suggested that, with a view to uniformity, for "music," "crotchets and quavers" should be substituted.

5

In the Avvertimento al Pubblico the title of the comedy is given in Italian, "Il Barbiere di Sivigilia; ossia, L'Inutile Precauzione."

6

L'Ape Italiana. Paris 1836.

7

Cenn di una donna già contante sopra il maestro Rossini.

8

M. de Saint-George, in a speech he delivered at Rossini's funeral.

9

"Conversations with Rossini," by Ferdinand Hiller. Musical World, 1856.

10

Le Siège de Corinthe was the first opera – it was the thirty sixth he had composed – that Rossini sold to a music publisher.