Just read this somewhere and thought it deserved a separate post, rather than a P.S. at the end of the previous one.Rossini referred to [the mentioned above] Di tanti palpiti as "the Rice Aria" because he said he wrote it in the time that took him to boil a pot of rice. Wow! Genius things do get created very fast, don't they?
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I've heard things about Rossini and Donizetti competing with how quickly they could write an opera. "What? It took you an entire week? I finished mine in 4 days!" and so on.
That might be true, but the best of operas were written in a very short time, which makes me think that when you are inspired you do not need that much time - you just write down what sounds in your ears. Tchaikovsky only took 44 days to write his best opera "The Queen of Spades", and Verdi only took 46 days to write his Rigoletto.I guess Rossini wrote everything so fast because he was inspired most of the time.
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