Check out some of the 200 piano pieces Rossini wrote during his final years, known as “Sins of My Old Age”. He dedicated them “to all fifth-rate pianists like myself”, but they’re quite good. Some, like “The Excursion Train”, are exercises in sublime silliness. But some, like “The Little Peas”, are just plain beautiful.
I know of them indeed and it’s hard to find recordings of them. Surprising considering they point the way to Satie. The most famous is ‘La Danza’ which Mario Lanza recorded as a song.