Verdi the man revealed
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 differen...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781681777689 1681777681 |
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