Rossini's abandonment of operatic composition in 1829 is a biographic enigma second only to the 30-year silence of the elderly Sibelius.

Between 1820 and 1830 he tried operatic composition, but was unsuccessful.

In 1789, the uninterrupted 20-year stretch of operatic composition stopped, and Anfossi restricted himself to church music.

Many solos exist for the oboe in chamber, symphonic, and operatic compositions from the Classical era.

The opera was written during the most prolific period of Haydn's operatic composition between 1773 and 1783 when he composed eight Italian operas.

Tamburini is famous for his association with the operatic compositions of Bellini such as I Puritani.

All qualitative judgments aside, even his greater detractors admit that with Euridice Peri managed to establish sound principles for operatic composition.

In 1899 Dukas turned once again to operatic composition.

Now, that lack has been grandly rectified, and in a way that does belated honor to the country's modern-day tradition of operatic composition.

One is that with the gradual decline of operatic composition, the primary cultures have faltered in their production of convincing vocal representatives.