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    Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle (Little solemn Mass) was written in 1863, possibly at the request of Count Alexis Pillet-Will for his wife...
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  • opposed to the more modest Missa brevis. In French, the genre is "Messe solennelle". The terms came into use in the classical period. When "Missa solemnis"...
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    and Joseph Joachim. Rossini's last major composition was his Petite messe solennelle (1863). Rossini's parents Rossini was born on 29 February in 1792...
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    Messa di Gloria, and in Naples where he took part in Rossini's Petite messe solennelle. In April 2006, he featured as a guest coach on American Idol,...
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    Rossini: Petite messe solennelle, Crucifixus...
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  • Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1864 – Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium...
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  • for chorus and the other as a movement for solo soprano in his Petite messe solennelle. Both stanzas are retained in Arthur Honegger's 1939 setting for...
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    Sacred music Messa di Gloria (1820) Stabat mater (1831, 1841) Petite messe solennelle (1864, 1867) Other works Six string sonatas (1804) Edipo a Colono...
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    Sacred music Messa di Gloria (1820) Stabat mater (1831, 1841) Petite messe solennelle (1864, 1867) Other works Six string sonatas (1804) Edipo a Colono...
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  • near Sheffield, England, bursts; 250 die. March 14 – Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium...
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