![]() The second performance met with quite a different fate, becoming a roaring success. However, many of the audience were supporters of one of Rossini's rivals, Giovanni Paisiello, who had already set The Barber of Seville to music, and took Rossini's new version to be an affront to his version. The first performance of this opera in 1816 was a disastrous failure: the audience hissed and jeered throughout, and several on-stage accidents occurred. Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for Il barbiere di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville) was composed in just under three weeks, and some of the themes in the famous overture were actually borrowed from two earlier Rossini operas, Aureliano in Palmira and Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra. By the time Gioachino Rossini sat down in 1816 to write his great comic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, both he and his leading. Rossini was well known for being remarkably productive, completing an average of two operas per year for 19 years, and in some years writing as many as four. ![]() By Gioachino Rossini, arranged for solo flute Instrumentation, Concert Band/Harmonie Product Format, Score and Parts Genre, Transcriptions Year of Publication, 2011 Grade of Difficulty, 4. ![]()
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