233 years ago today, on February 29, 1792 (February 8, 1792 in the lunar calendar), Italian musician Rossini was born. Gioaquino Antonio Rossini Gioaquino Antonio Rossini (1792~1868) Italian composer and one of the three heroes of Italian opera in the first half of the 19th century. Born in Besaro, Italy. He studied harmony from Tise at the age of ten, and later learned counterpoint from Matthew at the Bologna Conservatory of Music. Influenced by his mother as an opera singer, he began to write opera at the age of fourteen. "The Handsome Barber of Seville", written ten years later, collects the essence of Italian comedy and is a representative work of Italian comic opera with vivid language, free form and full of fantasy. His creation inherits the Italian tradition of focusing on melody and bel canto. The music is full of dazzling decorations and the spirit of humor and joy. It also absorbs the techniques of contemporary composer Beethoven, using orchestral music to replace and enrich the original only used for pitch prompts. A clavichord accompaniment. "William Tell", which was completed in 1829, reflected the desire for national autonomy and promoted the formation of the grand opera genre. After that, he did not play opera for nearly 40 years. Among the nearly 40 operas, the most influential ones are "Cinderella","The Magpie Who Steals" and the operas "Othello" and "Moses". With his distinctive national sentiments and patriotic thoughts, he created excellent works in both the fields of orthoopera and comic opera. His orthoopera was full of strong national emancipation of the mind. The comic opera was witty, lively, elegant, and profound. It aroused widespread resonance among the people at that time, thus saving the decline of Italian opera and was known as the revivalist of Italian opera art.