G. Rossini - The Barber of Seville - Ouverture - Scherzo

The Moscow Scherzo Quartett plays the Ouverture from the opera "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini. Recording from the concert in Switzerland, June 2006. The concert was sell out!!

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with La cambiale di matrimonio. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies The Barber of Seville , The Italian Girl in Algiers, and Cinderella. He also wrote a string of serious operas in Italian, including works such as Tancredi, Otello, and Semiramide. The Thieving Magpie features one of his most celebrated overtures.

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