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ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO (1792-1868). Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("G. Rossini"), by Erwin Freier, Paris (inscription on verso), n.d. [circa 1866]. 105 x 62 mm. (4 1/8 x 2 7/16 in.) including mount, vertical crease through mount and image (crossing one letter of signature on recto, and inscription on verso). A full-length standing portrait of the composer with cane and top hat in hand, signed on the mount; and additionally inscribed and signed on verso: "Souvenir de Reconnaissance offert à mon jeune amis Monsieur le Baron Alfred de Rothschild G. Rossini Paris 26 Jan. 1866 [with a musical bar containing a chord]."
"The enduring Barber of Seville was hissed at its first performance in 1816. Undaunted, Rossini went on to write thirty-five more operas by the time he was thirty-seven, and then abandoned the form"--W.M.
"The enduring Barber of Seville was hissed at its first performance in 1816. Undaunted, Rossini went on to write thirty-five more operas by the time he was thirty-seven, and then abandoned the form"--W.M.