Happy Birthday, Gioachino Rossini! The Italian composer was most celebrated for …

Happy Birthday, Gioachino Rossini! The Italian composer was most celebrated for his sparkling comic operas. He was nicknamed ‘Signor Crescendo’ because of the trademark intensifying of sound he used in his music, and he became the most widely acclaimed and wealthy composer of his time. As we celebrate his birth #onthisday in 1792, listen to Rossini’s ‘Der Barbier von Sevilla’ from our recent release ‘Oper auf Deutsch’: https://DG.lnk.to/_BC4QFP #LegendarySaturday

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