Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792, in the town of Pesaro in Italy that lies on the Adriatic Coast. He was a classical composer that wrote many operas He studied music in Bologna in his early life, and both his parents where musically inclined as well. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player, and his mother, Anna, was as singer. His parents started exposing him to music early and he had learned to play the triangle in his father’s musical group by the time he was 6. At the age of ten he was preforming solo parts in his church. He sang at the theatre of commune in 1805 and this was his one and only public singing debut. He learned to play the horn from his father and also studied cello under Cavedagni. His first