[PDF] The Story Of Giuseppe Verdi eBook

Author : Gabriele Baldini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1980-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521297127

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A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.

Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198166009

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Written with exclusive access to the original Verdi family documents, this book explores the facts behind the myths of this extraordinary figure. Previously unknown aspects of Verdi's life are exposed in this biography, which took 30 years to write.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1545748888

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Giuseppe Verdi was born in obscurity in a tiny Italian village in 1813. When he died in 1901, hundreds of thousands of people turned out to pay their respects to the man whom many people consider as the best opera composer of all time. His career spanned more than half a century and included such successes as Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Otello, Falstaff, and Aida, the most often-performed work at New York s Metropolitan Opera. Yet when he applied at a famous music school in Milan, he was turned down because he was lacking in musical talent. He not only proved the school wrong but became an important figure in Italian politics during the turbulent era when the scattered provinces came together to form a new nation. Along the way, he overcame obstacles such as the death of his first wife and two small children and the humiliation of being booed during the premiere of one of his early operas.

Author : Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415881897

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This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781681777689

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Giuseppe Verdi remains Italy’s greatest operatic composer and a man of apparent contradictions—vividly brought to life through a nuanced examination of his life and monumental music. Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story. An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization. From Rigoletto to Otello, La Traviatato to Aida, Verdi’s canon encompassed the full range of human emotion. His private life was no less complex: he suffered great loss, and went out of his way to antagonize supporters and his own family. An outspoken advocate of Italian independence and a sharp critic of the church, he was often at odds with nineteenth-century society. In Verdi: The Man Revealed, John Suchet attempts to get under the skin of perhaps the most private composer who ever lived. Unraveling his protestations, his deliberate embellishments and disavowals, Suchet reveals the true character of this great artist—and the art for which he will be forever known.

Author : Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 100052485X

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First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today, Verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier research. For researchers who have not spent years with the Verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of this giant’s fife and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeed. It is primarily for these researchers that this guide is intended. Its purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer, presenting enough material in annotations that researchers may survey the many myriad directions Verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interested.

Author : Thomas Tapper
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Verdi" (The Story of the Little Boy who Loved the Hand Organ) by Thomas Tapper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 071454499X

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The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton