Gioacchino Rossini (Piazza) - Overture to La Gazza Ladra, Piano music and score

Possibly Rossini's most famous overture: La Gazza Ladra (the stealing magpie). Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that the conductor of the premiere performance locked him in a room at the top of La Scala the day before the premiere with orders to complete the opera's still unfinished overture. He was under the guard of four stagehands whose job it was to toss each completed page out the window to the copyist below.
The recording is a piano transcription by Pietro Piazza. As you can see a beautiful old score from the 19th century. Enjoy!
Score: imslp.org

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