Luigi Felice Rossi was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, music teacher, musicologist, and music theorist. He mainly composed instrumental and sacred music. He did write one opera

Opera

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, Gli avventurieri (The Adventurers), which premiered successfully in Turin in 1835. However, when the opera was later mounted at La Scala

La Scala

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 it was ridiculed by the Milan

Milan

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ese critics.

Rossi was born at Brandizzo

Brandizzo

Brandizzo is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 15 km northeast of Turin.Brandizzo borders the following municipalities: Chivasso, Volpiano, Settimo Torinese, and San Raffaele Cimena....

. He began his musical training in Bologna, studying composition under Stanislao Mattei

Stanislao Mattei

Stanislao Mattei was an Italian composer, musicologist, and teacher. A pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini, Mattei's music bares a close resemblance to his style of composition...

. He then entered the Naples Conservatory where he attended classes with Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...

 and was a pupil of Pietro Raimondi

Pietro Raimondi

Pietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras...

 and Niccolò Zingarelli. In 1842 he travelled to Paris where he became a protégé of music theorists Adrien de La Fage

Adrien de La Fage

Juste-Adrien-Lenoir de La Fage was a French composer and musicologist.La Fage was born in Paris. He became a choirboy at the Saint-Philippe du Roule in 1807 and received his early musical education there...

 and Guillaume Louis Wilhelm. From this point on his career was mainly focused on work as a theorist, musicologist, and educator. He died at Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

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