Transcript Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi

 Born at Le Roncole, near Parma in 1813
Died of a stroke at Milan in 1901
Italian composer. His world recognition
is due mainly to his operas
 His parents were landowners and innkeepers.
 Known as 'the swan from Busseto'.
 He studied composition privately with Ferdinando
Provesi in Busseto. At age 20 he moved to Milan to
continue his studies, but the Conservatory of Music
rejected him. Verdi took private lessons and
associated with Milan's cultural milieu in his pursuit
of a musical career. He was patronized by Antonio
Barezzi, a merchant, whose daughter, Margherita,
was Verdi's student and later became his wife.
 Verdi's musical success
coincided with the
political events of Italian
unification during the
Austrian occupation.
 Many of his opera
performances were used
by the supporters.
 From 1861-1865 he was
elected representative of
Busseto in the newly
formed Italian
parliament.
 The music of Verdi served
the audience of the mass
public rather than that of
the musical elite.
 He uses duets, trios and
quartets along with
significant and
memorable passages for
chorus.
Aida
•http://youtu.be/AssDQbaIP_I
La Traviata
•http://youtu.be/s8zE-WNA6os
Rigoletto
•http://youtu.be/8A3zetSuYRg
Nabucco
•http://youtu.be/y0EAL3vXZrM
 Born at 8:00pm-LMT
 Wrote his earlier operas in a style now known as "bel canto" or
"beautiful singing"; beginning with Otello, wrote in a more
dramatic style.
 Was idolized by conductor Arturo Toscanini.
 Italian composer. His world recognition is due mainly to his
operas. Among these, the best known are: "Rigoletto", "Il
Trovatore", "La Traviata", "La Forza del Destino", "Aida", "Otello"
and "Falstaff". "Otello" and "Falstaff" are considered by most
critics to be the finest operas ever adapted from Shakespeare.
Verdi wrote "Falstaff" when he was eighty, in 1893. The tenor aria
"La donna e mobile", from "Rigoletto", is one of the most famous
arias ever written for an opera, and is familiar even to people who
never listen to opera.
 http://www.8notes.com
/biographies/verdi.asp#
Verdi.27s_Nationalism
 http://www.imdb.com/
name/nm0006333/bio
 http://www.pbs.org/wn
et/gperf/education/ver
di.html