Definition of Rossini

1. Noun. Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868).

Exact synonyms: Giloacchino Antonio Rossini
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rossini

Rosie
Rosina
Roslyn
Rosmarinus
Rosmarinus officinalis
Ross
Ross-Jones test
Ross Island
Ross River fever
Ross River virus
Ross Sea
Ross cycle
Rossbach
Rosser
Rossetti
Rossini (current term)
Rossolimo's reflex
Rossolimo's sign
Rossum
Rostand
Rostock
Rostov
Rostov-na-Donu
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov na Donu
Rostov on Don
Roswell
Rosy Lee
Rotarian
Rotarians

Literary usage of Rossini

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Giudizio perentoria sidla rer'M ddla Patria di II. Rossini ... Rossini and his School, 1881. Portraits of Rossini are frequent at all ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1825)
"ANECDOTES of Rossini.—(From the Memoirs of Rossini}. GIOACCHINO Rossini was born on the 29th of February, 1792, at Pesaro, a pretty little town in the Papal ..."

3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"Rossini, therefore, was induced to go to Vienna, and "Zelmira" was written with ... It is greatly to his honor that Rossini appreciated Mozart and Haydn. ..."

4. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"Rossini, whom Weber did not understand, and whom Beethoven did not wish to know, belongs nevertheless to the race of those grand creators, and in his veins ..."

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