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Google Celebrates Gioachino Rossini’s 220th Birthday with Leap Year

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon andGuillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident […]