Celebrate the 29th of February 2012

29th day of February will only happens once every 4 years, this year Google homepage has doodled a rare two-in-one doodle that commemorates not only the leap day but also the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

The Gioachino Rossini leap year Google doodle is the third leap year doodle in Google’s history. The previous two were put up on 2004 and 2008. There was no leap day doodle in the year 2000.

Gioachino Rossini is an Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William Tell (1829)

This is also a way of remember Gioachino Rossini music :