Verdi
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Verdi

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Verdi

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781681777689
eBook ISBN
9781681778297
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. 1. Confused Beginnings
  5. 2. A Father and His Daughter
  6. 3. ‘He Is a Rude, Uncivil Scoundrel’
  7. 4. Intolerable Losses
  8. 5. Another Loss and a Fiasco
  9. 6. ‘Little By Little the Opera Was Composed’
  10. 7. The Galley Years
  11. 8. ‘Signor Maestro’
  12. 9. Verdi, Man of Property
  13. 10. Queen Victoria Is Not Amused
  14. 11. ‘The Hour of Liberation Has Sounded’
  15. 12. Verdi Sets Tongues Wagging
  16. 13. The Opera Is ‘Repugnant, Immoral, Obscene’
  17. 14. A Rift in the Verdi Family
  18. 15. A Question of Identity
  19. 16. ‘Without You, I Am a Body Without a Soul’
  20. 17. The Bear of Busseto
  21. 18. Verdi, Gentleman Farmer
  22. 19. ‘Verdi Is My Tyrant’
  23. 20. A Wedding At Last
  24. 21. A Soprano Impresses Verdi
  25. 22. ‘I Am an Almost Perfect Wagnerian’
  26. 23. An Opera for Cairo
  27. 24. ‘The All-Powerful Corruptor of Italian Artistic Taste’
  28. 25. Scandal and Comedy
  29. 26. ‘One Button More, One Button Less’
  30. Afterword
  31. Notes
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index
  34. Acknowledgements
  35. Picture Credits
  36. Copyright

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