Gioacchino Rossini & a cura di Enrico Zullino 
Viola part of ‘Il Turco in Italia’ for String Quartet 
The Turk in Italy – overture

Parte di
Viola  ’Il Turco in Italia’ ouverture di Gioacchino Rossini. Trascrizione completa per
Quartetto d’Archi ( Violino I, Violino II, Viola, Violoncello), di livello medio/avanzato, a cura di Enrico Zullino 
(Parti staccate e partitura disponibili nella collana). 

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Viola part of ‘Il Turco in Italia’ (The Turk in Italy) overture  by Gioacchino Rossini, complete transcription for
string quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello) by Enrico Zullino. Advanced/intermediate level – Duration 9.00 (+-) min. – Key D  
(Single parts available in series).

• Il turco in Italia (English: The Turk in Italy) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer Franz Seydelmann [de] in 1788.An opera buffa, it was influenced by Mozart’s Così fan tutte, which was performed at the same theatre shortly before Rossini’s work. The strangely harmonized overture, though infrequently recorded, is one of the best examples of Rossini’s characteristic style. An unusually long introduction displays an extended, melancholy horn solo with full orchestral accompaniment, before giving way to a lively, purely comic main theme.