ROSSINI GIOACCHINO: (1792-1868) An excellent Autograph Musical score

ROSSINI GIOACCHINO: (1792-1868) An excellent Autograph Musical score
ROSSINI GIOACCHINO: (1792-1868) Italian Composer. A prolific composer, known as 'The Italian Mozart', who until his retirement in 1829 had been the most popular opera composer in history. An excellent Autograph Musical score signed ` G. Rossini´, two pages, written to the front pages only, folio, 10 x 13 (25 x 33cm), Passy, 1863, inscribed to Madame Bouland. Rossini has cleanly penned thirty-eight bars of music on two staves, in bold black ink. The Italian composer annotates to the heading and before the first bar of music ` Piano´, and above the musical tempo ` Andantino mosso´. The musical work is a piano composition taken from Péchés de vieillesse, ("Sins of Old Age"), 11 double musical staves, and contains multiple annotations in Rossini´s hand. At the conclusion to the base of the second page, Rossini annotates ` Un Rien offert à Madame Bouland, par son ami et admirateur G. Rossini´ (Translation: " A little something offered to Madame Bouland, from his friend and admirer, G. Rossini"), also dated beneath in his hand. Bearing a statement to the verso of the second page by Camille (?) stating ` Naguère, à Pesaro, contemplant la statue, je me disais: Les Arts ont aussi leur autel; et Rossini, du haut de ce bronze immortel, voit la postérité qui passe et qui salue´ (Translation: " Not long ago, in Pesaro, contemplating the statue, I said to myself: The Arts also have their altar; and Rossini, from the height of this immortal bronze, sees posterity passing and saluting") Small age toning to the edges, with a very small tear to the lower edge of the front page, not affecting the musical quote, otherwise VG