Canon
Where to start with Rossini
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageGuillaume Tell — Opera
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VocalPetite messe solennelle — For choir, soloists, 2 pianos and harmonium
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Chamber6 Sonate a quattro
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KeyboardAllegretto
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OrchestralConcerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, "Concerto da Esperimento"
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StageIl barbiere di Siviglia
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StageL'italiana in Algeri — Opera
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StageLa cenerentola — Opera
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Vocal2 Nouvelles Compositions, for soprano and piano
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Vocal3 Choeurs religieux, for soloists and chorus
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Vocal3 Quartetti da camera
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VocalAddio ai Viennesi, song for tenor and piano, "Da voi parto, amate sponde"
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StageAdelaide di Borgogna — Opera
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VocalAh, per pietà, t'arresta!, duet for 2 sopranos and orchestra
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ChamberAllegro agitato in A minor, for cello and piano
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Rossini's catalogueMost Popular
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The Barber of Seville (opera)
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William Tell Overture
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Stabat Mater
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Overture from La gazza ladra
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Una voce poco fa (from Barber)
Most Acclaimed
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Otello (his version — not Verdi\’s)
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Moses in Egypt
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Petite Messe Solennelle
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Guillaume Tell (complete opera)
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Semiramide
Most Weird
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Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age)150+ piano pieces and songs written in retirement — eccentric, ironic, private; titles include ”A Harmless Prelude,” ”Asinine Little Waltz,” ”Dried Figs”
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Petite Messe Solennelleoriginal version for 12 singers, 2 pianos, and harmonium — his last major work; he asked to be forgiven for writing sacred music with such an amusing score
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Guillaume Tell4-hour grand opera — only the overture is ever performed; the full opera is extraordinary
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Moses in Egyptprayer from Act 3 became the most famous tune in Europe in 1820; Paganini wrote variations on it for one string
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Stabat Materwritten partly by a ghost writer — he was ill; when he recovered he replaced the borrowed movements; the premiere nearly caused a riot over ownership
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 158
- Stage
- ● Guillaume Tell — Opera
- ● Il barbiere di Siviglia
- L'italiana in Algeri — Opera
- La cenerentola — Opera
- Adelaide di Borgogna — Opera
- Armida — Opera
- Aureliano in Palmira — Opera
- Bianca e Falliero — Opera
- Ciro in Babilonia — Opera
- Demetrio e Polibio — Opera
- Edipio a Colono, incidental music for bass, chorus, and orchestra
- Edoardo e Cristina — Opera
- Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra — Opera
- Ermione
- Il Signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo — Opera
- Il turco in Italia
- Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro — Opera
- L'equivoco stravagante — Opera
- L'inganno felice — Opera
- L'occasione fa il ladro — Opera
- La cambiale di matrimonio — Opera
- La donna del lago
- La gazza ladra
- La gazzetta — Opera
- La pietra del paragone — Opera
- La scala di seta
- Le Comte Ory — Opera
- Le siège de Corinthe
- Maometto II — Opera
- Matilde Shabran — Opera
- Mosè in Egitto — Opera
- Moïse et Pharaon — Opera
- Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia — Opera
- Ricciardo e Zoraide — Opera
- Semiramide — Opera
- Sigismondo — Opera
- Tancredi — Opera
- Torvaldo e Dorliska — Opera
- Ugo re d 'Italia
- Zelmira — Opera
- Vocal
- Petite messe solennelle — For choir, soloists, 2 pianos and harmonium
- 2 Nouvelles Compositions, for soprano and piano
- 3 Choeurs religieux, for soloists and chorus
- 3 Quartetti da camera
- Addio ai Viennesi, song for tenor and piano, "Da voi parto, amate sponde"
- Ah, per pietà, t'arresta!, duet for 2 sopranos and orchestra
- Arietta all'antica; O salutaris Hostia
- Ariette à l'ancienne
- Ave Maria; Su due note
- Barcarolle
- Beltà crudele, "Amori scendete propizi al mio core"
- Beltà crudele; Nuova melodia
- Brindisi, for bass and chorus
- Cantemus Domino
- Canzonetta spagnuola, "En medio a mis dolores"
- Choeur, for choir and piano
- Crucifixus, for soprano, alto and orchestra
- De l'Italie et de la France, hymn for soprano, bass, chorus and orhcestra, QR ix/62
- Egle ed Irene
- Francesca di rimini; Farò come colui che piange e dice
- Giovanna d'Arco
- Giunone, cantata for the birthday of Ferdinando IV, for soprano, chorus and orchestra
- Hai la sottana
- Hymne à Napoleon III, for baritone, chorus, orchestra and military band, QR xii/21, "Dieu tout puissant"
- Il Carnevale di Venezia, for tenor, 2 basses, and piano
- Il candore in fuga
- Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo
- Il risentimento, "Mi lagnerò tacendo"
- Il trovatore, "Chi m'ascolta il canto usato"
- L'âme délaissée
- La Danza, for voice and orchestra
- La Dichiarazione; Canzonetta
- La Francesca da Rimini, for voice and piano
- La Partenza; Canzone
- La carita, for choir and piano
- La fede, for choir and piano
- La morte di Didone, cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestra
- La passeggiata, "Or che di fiori adorno"
- La speranza
- Laus Deo
- Le Lazzarone; Chansonette de Cabaret
- Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
- Messa di Gloria, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra
- Messa di Milano, for soloist, chorus and orchestra
- Mi lagnerò tacendo
- Musique Anodine, Prelude and 6 songs, QR iv/62
- Nella stagion di maggio
- Nizza, "Nizza, je puis sans peine"
- O salutaris hostia, for mixed voices
- Omaggio umiliato, for soprano, chorus, and orchestra
- Peches de vieillesse, Vol.13: Musique anodine
- Preghiera, for 4 tenors, 2 baritones, and 2 basses, QR vii/89, "Tu che di verde il prato"
- Péchés de Vieilesse, Book 1: Album italiano
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 11: Miscellanée de musique vocale
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 2: Album francais
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 3: Morceaux réservés
- Péchés de vieillesse, various piano, chamber, and Vocal
- Qual voce, quai note, for voice and piano
- Quartetto pastorale, for choir and piano
- Qui tollis, for tenor and orchestra
- Ridiamo, cantiamo che tutto s'en va, for soprano, 2 tenors, bass and piano
- Se il vuol la molinara, for voice and piano
- Soirées musicales — Song cycle
- Stabat mater, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra
- Tantum ergo, for 2 tenors, bass, and orchestra
- À ma belle mère; Requiem
- È foriera la Pace ai mortali, for baritone, male chorus and piano, QR xii/1
- Chamber
- 6 Sonate a quattro
- Allegro agitato in A minor, for cello and piano
- Andante and Variations on 'Di tanti palpiti,' for violin and harp in F major, QR vi/1
- Andante, Theme and Variations, for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon in F major, QR vi/18
- Duo in D major, for cello and double bass
- Fantasie in E flat major, for clarinet and piano
- Harp Sonata in E flat major
- March in C major, 'Pas-redouble', for 2 pianos
- Prelude, Theme and Variations, for horn and piano
- Péchés de Vieilesse, Book 9: Album pour piano, violin, cello, harmonium, and horn
- Rossini...per quattro, for saxophones
- Serenata for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Flute, Oboe and English horn in E flat major, QR vi/31
- Sonata no. 1 in F major, for Wind Quartet
- Sonata no. 2 in G major, for Wind Quartet
- Sonata no. 4 in B flat major, for Wind Quartet
- Tema originale, for violin and piano
- Variazioni a più istrumenti obbligati in F major, for 2 violins, viola, cello and clarinet, QR ix/1
- Keyboard
- Allegretto
- German Dance
- Lame Waltz
- Moderato in A flat major
- Peches de vieillesse, Vol. 14: Other Peches de vieillesse
- Peches de vieillesse, Vol.12: Quelques riens pour album
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 5: Album pour les enfants adolescents
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 6: Album pour les Enfants Degourdis
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 7: Album de chaumière
- Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 8: Album de château
- Péchés de vieillesse, Book 10: Miscellanée pour piano
- Péchés de vieillesse, Book 4: Quatre mendiants and quatre hors d'oeuvres
- Scherzo in A minor
- Siberian Dance
- Siciliana
- The Regret
- Thème in E flat major
- Un rien
- Waltz in E flat major
- Waltz in E flat major, "Alla carissima Eugenia Puerati"
- Waltz in E flat major, "À M.me Charles de Rothschild"
- Orchestral
- Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, "Concerto da Esperimento"
- Grand'Overtura Obbligato a Contrabasso in D
- Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra from La Donna del lago, QR vi/57
- La corona d'Italia in E flat major, for military band
- March for the Sultan Abdul Madjid, for band
- March, for military band in C
- Overture al conventello in D major, QR vi/1
- Rendez-vous de chasse, for 4 hunting horns, and orchestra in D major, QR ix/45
- Serenata in E flat major
- Sinfonia in D, QR vii/1
- Sinfonia in E flat major, for orchestra
- Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra, QR vi/57
- Variazioni a più istrumenti obbligati