ROSSINI, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Autograph musical quotation signed ('Gioachino Rossini'), Bologna, 5 February 1851.
8 bars marked 'Vivace' for pianoforte on a single system of two staves, on an album leaf, 196 x 258mm. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 May 1996, lot 479.
A miniature composition for piano. Rossini was by now 16 years into the 'Great Renunciation' – his astonishing abandonment of opera after Guillaume Tell in 1830. He had moved from Paris to Bologna in 1835, although by 1851, when he executed this brief composition on an album-leaf, he was primarily based in Florence.
ROSSINI, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Autograph musical quotation signed ('Gioachino Rossini'), Bologna, 5 February 1851.
8 bars marked 'Vivace' for pianoforte on a single system of two staves, on an album leaf, 196 x 258mm. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 May 1996, lot 479.
A miniature composition for piano. Rossini was by now 16 years into the 'Great Renunciation' – his astonishing abandonment of opera after Guillaume Tell in 1830. He had moved from Paris to Bologna in 1835, although by 1851, when he executed this brief composition on an album-leaf, he was primarily based in Florence.
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