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In Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was a popular Italian composer who created 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell ....
's Péchés de vieillesse ("Sins of Old Age"), the opera composer gathered together numerous vocal and solo piano pieces into fourteen unpublished albums, under his self-deprecating and ironic title. The grouping of pieces in albums do not reflect the sequence or the dates of their composition, which ranged from 1857 to shortly before his death in 1868.

The Péchés de vieillesse are salon music
Salon music

Salon music was a popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century. It was usually written for solo piano in the Romantic music style, and often performed by the composer at events known as "Salons"....
, though of a refined order, most of them meant to be performed with a few singers to piano accompaniment in the privacy of Rossini's drawing room at Passy
Passy

Passy is an exclusive area of Paris, France, located in the XVIe arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is traditionally home to many of the city's wealthiest residents....
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Critical editions of all the albums are in process of publication by the Fondazione Rossini, Pesaro, which conserves the original autograph manuscripts; they are distributed by the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
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In Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was a popular Italian composer who created 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola and Guillaume Tell ....
's Péchés de vieillesse ("Sins of Old Age"), the opera composer gathered together numerous vocal and solo piano pieces into fourteen unpublished albums, under his self-deprecating and ironic title. The grouping of pieces in albums do not reflect the sequence or the dates of their composition, which ranged from 1857 to shortly before his death in 1868.

The Péchés de vieillesse are salon music
Salon music

Salon music was a popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century. It was usually written for solo piano in the Romantic music style, and often performed by the composer at events known as "Salons"....
, though of a refined order, most of them meant to be performed with a few singers to piano accompaniment in the privacy of Rossini's drawing room at Passy
Passy

Passy is an exclusive area of Paris, France, located in the XVIe arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is traditionally home to many of the city's wealthiest residents....
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  • Vol I Album italiano
  • Vol II Album français
  • Vol III Morceaux réservés
  • Vol IV Quatre hors d’œuvres et quatre mendiants
  • Vol V Album pour les enfants adolescents
  • Vol VI Album pour les enfants dégourdis
  • Vol VII Album de chaumière
  • Vol VIII Album de château
  • Vol IX Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor
  • Vol X Miscellanée pour piano
  • Vol XI Miscellanée de musique vocale
  • Vol XII Quelques riens pour album
  • Vol XIII Musique anodine (1857). Presented to his wife Olympe in gratitude for her care during his long intermittent illness.
  • Vol XIV Altri Péchés de vieillesse


Critical editions of all the albums are in process of publication by the Fondazione Rossini, Pesaro, which conserves the original autograph manuscripts; they are distributed by the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. The new editions restore Rossini's expressively precise musical notation and offer heretofore unpublished alternative versions of some Péchés.

After the composer's death in 1873, his widow, Olympe Pélissier, sold the entire collection, which was then auctioned in London, in 1878. The Société anonyme de publications périodique, Paris, was among the buyers, who sold publishing rights to the firm of Heugel. The edition was prepared by Auguste-Edouard Vaucorbeil (1821-1884), director of the Paris Opéra
Paris Opera

Paris Opera may refer to:In theaters:*Th??tre de l'Acad?mie Royale de Musique, the official theatre of the French theatrical institution known as the Acad?mie Royale de Musique from 1821 until 1873...
, who reordered the pieces and gave them new picturesque titles, as Rossini's often nonsensical titles, which looked forward to Eric Satie's, were deemed unsuitable.