Il signor tambourossini - caricature of rossini's musical style. Combining the composer's name with tambour, (french for "drum") this lithograph by the french artist paul delaroche makes clear rossini's european reputation as a creator of noise, with trumpet and drum accompanied by a magpie (la gazza ladra), an oriental type (otello or maybe il turco in italia), and king midas (with his ass's ears), literally trampling on sheet-music and violins, while apollo (the god of music) makes his escape in the background[1]. Date: 1821.
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