| Gioachino Rossini's Window | |
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Origin |
Giachino Rossini |
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Type |
Window |
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Effects |
Increases productivity output |
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Downsides |
Diminishes eagerness when traveling |
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Activation |
Being contract-bound |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 12 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
August 15, 1906 |
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Origin[]
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.
His first opera was performed in Venice in 1810 when he was 18 years old. In the period 1810–1823 he wrote 34 operas for the Italian stage that were performed in Venice, Milan, Ferrara, Naples and elsewhere; this productivity necessitated an almost formulaic approach for some components (such as overtures) and a certain amount of self-borrowing. During this period he produced his most popular works, including the comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (known in English as The Barber of Seville).
Rossini's withdrawal from opera for the last 40 years of his life has never been fully explained; contributary factors may have been ill-health, the wealth his success had brought him, and the rise of spectacular grand opera under composers such as Giacomo Meyerbeer. From the early 1830s to 1855, when he left Paris and was based in Bologna, Rossini wrote relatively little. On his return to Paris in 1855 he became renowned for his musical salons on Saturdays, regularly attended by musicians and the artistic and fashionable circles of Paris.
Writer Julian Budden, noting the formulas adopted early on by Rossini in his career and continued in his overtures, arias, structures and ensembles, has called them "the Code Rossini”. Rossini's overall style may indeed have been influenced more directly by the French: the historian John Rosselli suggests that French rule in Italy at the start of the 19th century meant that "music had taken on new military qualities of attack, noise and speed – to be heard in Rossini." Rossini’s approach to opera was inevitably tempered by changing tastes and audience demands.
Effects[]
Allows workers under a formal contract of work, such as modern salarymen or per diem employees, to feel a continual boost of effort when on the job. Their excitability to engage in-depth allows them to continue a task for longer without tiring. Ideas that require new solutions are usually found by altering the methods of past tasks.
Turns traveling into a gloomy matter that makes them irritable to downright sad until they settle back in another area. Jobs requiring constant travel seem to negate the upside, rendering itself inert for certain people. [[Category: Warehouse 12