Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Gioachino Rossini/archive1

TFA blurb review

Any thoughts or edits? (I'll be back on Friday.) - Dank (push to talk) 23:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gioachino Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer known for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. In the period 1810–1823 he wrote his most popular works including the comic operas L'italiana in Algeri, Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola, building on the traditions of masters such as Domenico Cimarosa. He also composed opera seria works such as Otello, Tancredi and Semiramide. All of these show innovation in melody, harmonic and instrumental colour, and dramatic form. In 1824 he was contracted by the Opéra in Paris, for which he produced an opera to celebrate the coronation of Charles X, Il viaggio a Reims, later cannibalized for Le comte Ory, and in 1829 his last opera, Guillaume Tell. He retired from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity. (Full article...)

from Smerus

Hi, thanks for this .....I wouldn't use the phrase 'borrowing from masters such as Domenico Cimarosa' as that might suggest he was pinching their tunes!. How about something like 'building on the traditions of masters such as....'. As the two operas Le siège de Corinthe and Moïse aren't all that well-known today, I'd rejig that sentence to feature Le comte Ory, e.g. thus:

In 1824 he was contracted by the Opéra in Paris, for which he produced an opera to celebrate the coronation of Charles X, Il viaggio a Reims, later cannibalized for Le comte Ory, and in 1829 his last opera, Guillaume Tell.

Best, --Smerus (talk) 10:59, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 13:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

from Tim riley

Splendidly pithy summary. Only two minor thoughts in addition to Smerus's: if it were me, instead of "who gained fame" I might just have "known", and for "produced" I might have "wrote" (though to some extent he acted as producer too). Tim riley talk 15:39, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks kindly, Tim. Done. - Dank (push to talk) 16:39, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]