Opera

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This paper examines how, throughout its history, opera has exerted great influence on other forms of music. It looks at how the opera as we know it today developed in Italy in the late 1500s and how the opera innovation inspired some of the biggest composers known today such as Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini and Mozart.

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"Another great composer of the first half of the nineteenth century is Gioacchino Antonio Rossini. Rossini was the most important Italian opera composer during that time, and a master of the opera buffa genre. Though he is best known for his comic and satiric operas, he also composed operas with serious themes. The best of his serious operas have power and passion, and his best comic operas are spontaneous. In the comic operas, he mastered the art of mixing humor with grief. Rossini's opera buffa masterpiece was The Barber of Seville. Today, it is considered the greatest comic masterpiece."

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