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On October 10, 1813, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto, in the plains of Italian Parma. The parish church registers of Le Roncole recorded his birth at 8 pm on October 10, 1813, but he celebrated his birthday on the 9th on his mother’s insistence. For a long time there was confusion about his birth date as his mother always told him that he was born on October 9, 1814. It was only in 1876 that he confirmed his birth date from the church records, but nevertheless celebrated his birthday on the wrong date, for the rest of his life.
Roncole was a hamlet with a number of scattered houses and a church at the corner of a well-known street. Verdi’s father Carlo Giuseppe Verdi kept a tavern of sorts and sold wine and groceries. Verdi’s mother Luigia was hard working, courageous, sensible and dignified; it was from her that Verdi inherited his best qualities.
Verdi’s boyhood was surrounded by societal upheavals. In 1814, Australian and Russian armies began to evict French out of North Italy. A group of Russians passed through Roncole, looting, raping and killing inhabitants including women who took shelter in the church. Verdi’s mother saved herself and her child by hiding in the belfry.
MUSICAL CREATIONS
Operas and Other Compositions
Anni di Galera : 1839-1850
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Milan : November 17, 1839
Un Giorno di Regno, Milan : September 3, 1840
Nabucco, Milan : March 9, 1842
I Lombardi alla Prima, Crociata, Milan : February 1, 1843
Ernani, Venice : March 9, 1844
I Due Foscari, Rome : November 3, 1844
Giovanna d'Arco, Milan : February 15, 1845
Alzira, Naples : August 12, 1845
Attila, Venice : March 17, 1846
Macbeth, Florence : March 14, 1847
I Masnadieri, London : July 22, 1847
Jérusalem, Paris : November 22, 1847
Il Corsaro Trieste : October 25, 1848
La Battaglia di Legnano, Rome : January 27, 1849
Luisa Miller, Naples : December 8, 1849
Stiffelio Trieste : October 16, 1850
Middle Period 1851-1862
Rigoletto, Venice : March 11, 1851
Il Trovatore, Rome : January 19, 1853
La Traviata, Venice : March 6, 1853
Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Paris : June 13, 1855
Simon Boccanegra, Venice : March 12, 1857
Aroldo, Rimini : August 16, 1857
Un Ballo in Maschera, Rome : February 17, 1859
La Forza del Destino, St. Petersburg : November 10, 1862
Last Quartet 1867-1893
Don Carlos, Paris : March 11, 1867
Aida, Cairo : December 24, 1871
Othello, Milan : February 5, 1887
Falstaff, Milan : February 9, 1893
Various Compositions
Tantum Ergo for tenor and orchestra : 1836
Sei romanze song cycle : published in 1838
Sei romanze song cycle : published in 1845
Various Other Art Songs (1839-1869)
Suona la tromba for 3-part male chorus and orchestra : 1848
Inno delle nazioni : 1862
Romanza senza parole for piano, published : 1865
Stornello for Album Piave, : published in 1869
Libera me for soprano, chorus and orchestra (for Messa per Rossini) : 1869
String Quartet in E minor composed in 1873 and published in 1876
Messa da Requiem : 1874
Ave Maria for soprano and string orchestra : 1879-80
Pater Noster for 5-part unaccompanied chorus : 1879-80
Pietà, Signor! for tenor and piano : 1894
Quattro pezzi sacri composed in 1887-97, published in 1897-98
BOOKS
The story of Giuseppe Verdi
Gabriele Baldini with Roger Parker (Ed.)
Cambridge University Press 1980
Verdi with a Vengeance
An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King Of Opera
William Berger
Vintage Books 2000
Verdi
Julian Budden
Dent 1985 | Vintage Books 1987 | Schirmer Books 1996
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 1
From Oberto to Rigoletto
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1978/revised version paperback 1992
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 2
From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1979/revised version paperback 1992
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 3
From Don Carlos to Falstaff
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1981/revised version paperback 1992
Verdi's Aida
The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents
Collected and translated by Hans Busch
University of Minnesota Press 1978
Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in Letters and Documents
Vol.I Letters and Telegrams
Vol.II Documents
Hans Busch (Ed.)
Oxford University Press 1988
Verdi's Middle Period
Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice
Martin Chusid (Ed.)
University of Chicago Press 1998
The Verdi-Boito Correspondence
Marcello Conati, Mario Medici (Eds.)
University of Chicago Press 1994
The Work of Giuseppe Verdi
Philip Gossett
University of Chicago Press 1992
Falstaff
James A. Hepokoski
Cambridge University Press 1983
Othello
James A. Hepokoski
Cambridge University Press 1987
Aspects of Verdi
George Martin
Dodd, Mead 1988 | Limelight Editions 1993
The Complete Operas of Verdi
Charles Osborne
Victor Gollancz 1969 | Gollancz Paperbacks 1985 | Da Capo 1988
Verdi
A Biography
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Oxford University Press 1993
The Life of Verdi
John Rosselli
Cambridge University Press 2000
Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works
Francis Toye
Heinemann 1931 | Vienna House 1972 | Horizon Press 1983
The Man Verdi
Frank Walker
Dent 1962 | University of Chicago Press 1983 (out of print)
Seven Verdi Librettos
With the Original Italian
William Weaver
Norton 1977
The Verdi Companion
William Weaver and Martin Chusid (Eds.)
Norton 1988
Verdi
A Documentary Study
William Weaver
Thames & Hudson, London, 1977 (out of print)
On October 10, 1813, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in Roncole near Busseto, in the plains of Italian Parma. The parish church registers of Le Roncole recorded his birth at 8 pm on October 10, 1813, but he celebrated his birthday on the 9th on his mother’s insistence. For a long time there was confusion about his birth date as his mother always told him that he was born on October 9, 1814. It was only in 1876 that he confirmed his birth date from the church records, but nevertheless celebrated his birthday on the wrong date, for the rest of his life.
Roncole was a hamlet with a number of scattered houses and a church at the corner of a well-known street. Verdi’s father Carlo Giuseppe Verdi kept a tavern of sorts and sold wine and groceries. Verdi’s mother Luigia was hard working, courageous, sensible and dignified; it was from her that Verdi inherited his best qualities.
Verdi’s boyhood was surrounded by societal upheavals. In 1814, Australian and Russian armies began to evict French out of North Italy. A group of Russians passed through Roncole, looting, raping and killing inhabitants including women who took shelter in the church. Verdi’s mother saved herself and her child by hiding in the belfry.
MUSICAL CREATIONS
Operas and Other Compositions
Anni di Galera : 1839-1850
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Milan : November 17, 1839
Un Giorno di Regno, Milan : September 3, 1840
Nabucco, Milan : March 9, 1842
I Lombardi alla Prima, Crociata, Milan : February 1, 1843
Ernani, Venice : March 9, 1844
I Due Foscari, Rome : November 3, 1844
Giovanna d'Arco, Milan : February 15, 1845
Alzira, Naples : August 12, 1845
Attila, Venice : March 17, 1846
Macbeth, Florence : March 14, 1847
I Masnadieri, London : July 22, 1847
Jérusalem, Paris : November 22, 1847
Il Corsaro Trieste : October 25, 1848
La Battaglia di Legnano, Rome : January 27, 1849
Luisa Miller, Naples : December 8, 1849
Stiffelio Trieste : October 16, 1850
Middle Period 1851-1862
Rigoletto, Venice : March 11, 1851
Il Trovatore, Rome : January 19, 1853
La Traviata, Venice : March 6, 1853
Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Paris : June 13, 1855
Simon Boccanegra, Venice : March 12, 1857
Aroldo, Rimini : August 16, 1857
Un Ballo in Maschera, Rome : February 17, 1859
La Forza del Destino, St. Petersburg : November 10, 1862
Last Quartet 1867-1893
Don Carlos, Paris : March 11, 1867
Aida, Cairo : December 24, 1871
Othello, Milan : February 5, 1887
Falstaff, Milan : February 9, 1893
Various Compositions
Tantum Ergo for tenor and orchestra : 1836
Sei romanze song cycle : published in 1838
Sei romanze song cycle : published in 1845
Various Other Art Songs (1839-1869)
Suona la tromba for 3-part male chorus and orchestra : 1848
Inno delle nazioni : 1862
Romanza senza parole for piano, published : 1865
Stornello for Album Piave, : published in 1869
Libera me for soprano, chorus and orchestra (for Messa per Rossini) : 1869
String Quartet in E minor composed in 1873 and published in 1876
Messa da Requiem : 1874
Ave Maria for soprano and string orchestra : 1879-80
Pater Noster for 5-part unaccompanied chorus : 1879-80
Pietà, Signor! for tenor and piano : 1894
Quattro pezzi sacri composed in 1887-97, published in 1897-98
BOOKS
The story of Giuseppe Verdi
Gabriele Baldini with Roger Parker (Ed.)
Cambridge University Press 1980
Verdi with a Vengeance
An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King Of Opera
William Berger
Vintage Books 2000
Verdi
Julian Budden
Dent 1985 | Vintage Books 1987 | Schirmer Books 1996
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 1
From Oberto to Rigoletto
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1978/revised version paperback 1992
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 2
From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1979/revised version paperback 1992
The Operas of Verdi Vol. 3
From Don Carlos to Falstaff
Julian Budden
Oxford University Press 1981/revised version paperback 1992
Verdi's Aida
The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents
Collected and translated by Hans Busch
University of Minnesota Press 1978
Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in Letters and Documents
Vol.I Letters and Telegrams
Vol.II Documents
Hans Busch (Ed.)
Oxford University Press 1988
Verdi's Middle Period
Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice
Martin Chusid (Ed.)
University of Chicago Press 1998
The Verdi-Boito Correspondence
Marcello Conati, Mario Medici (Eds.)
University of Chicago Press 1994
The Work of Giuseppe Verdi
Philip Gossett
University of Chicago Press 1992
Falstaff
James A. Hepokoski
Cambridge University Press 1983
Othello
James A. Hepokoski
Cambridge University Press 1987
Aspects of Verdi
George Martin
Dodd, Mead 1988 | Limelight Editions 1993
The Complete Operas of Verdi
Charles Osborne
Victor Gollancz 1969 | Gollancz Paperbacks 1985 | Da Capo 1988
Verdi
A Biography
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Oxford University Press 1993
The Life of Verdi
John Rosselli
Cambridge University Press 2000
Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works
Francis Toye
Heinemann 1931 | Vienna House 1972 | Horizon Press 1983
The Man Verdi
Frank Walker
Dent 1962 | University of Chicago Press 1983 (out of print)
Seven Verdi Librettos
With the Original Italian
William Weaver
Norton 1977
The Verdi Companion
William Weaver and Martin Chusid (Eds.)
Norton 1988
Verdi
A Documentary Study
William Weaver
Thames & Hudson, London, 1977 (out of print)
From barcarole to serenta;
With a swirling touch the contrapunto becomes a sonorous, histrionic euphony.
The artiste becomes the farcist
Then retires a heavy tragedian.
The subterfuge, the tacturnity, the ambush,
The opera becomes a dramatic symphony
That’s his mystery, his magnificence.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, one of the great music composers of the 19th century dominated Italian opera for over 30 years. His music was under continual experimentation and refinement.
No composer ever before, had such variety, profundity and vivacity as Verdi had in depicting the characters in his opera. Rigoletto was an evil jester and loving father; Amneris of Aida was self-destructive; Leonora of Trovatore was passionate; Leonora of Forza was tormented and Lady Macbeth was truly Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth.
His music could move rapidly and gently; it could be powerful and subtle at the same time. He handled various themes which were novel to the opera. Generations of admirers, the world over have adored Verdi’s compositions.
With a swirling touch the contrapunto becomes a sonorous, histrionic euphony.
The artiste becomes the farcist
Then retires a heavy tragedian.
The subterfuge, the tacturnity, the ambush,
The opera becomes a dramatic symphony
That’s his mystery, his magnificence.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, one of the great music composers of the 19th century dominated Italian opera for over 30 years. His music was under continual experimentation and refinement.
No composer ever before, had such variety, profundity and vivacity as Verdi had in depicting the characters in his opera. Rigoletto was an evil jester and loving father; Amneris of Aida was self-destructive; Leonora of Trovatore was passionate; Leonora of Forza was tormented and Lady Macbeth was truly Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth.
His music could move rapidly and gently; it could be powerful and subtle at the same time. He handled various themes which were novel to the opera. Generations of admirers, the world over have adored Verdi’s compositions.
October 10, 1813
Verdi was born.
1823
He was admitted to the Ginnasio at Busseto.
1831
He began to live with Antonio Barezzi.Began his study under Lavigna.
1836
Verdi appointed maestro to the commune of Busseto.Verdi marries Margherita Barezzi.
1838 to 1840
Death of children (Virginia and Icilio) and wife Margherita.Meets Giuseppina Strepponi for the first time.
1845
Verdi becomes the hero of Italian Music.
1859
Married Giuseppina in Geneva.
1869
Involved in love affair with Teresa Stolz.
1897
Giuseppina Strepponi’s death.
January 27, 1901
Verdi’s death.
Verdi was born.
1823
He was admitted to the Ginnasio at Busseto.
1831
He began to live with Antonio Barezzi.Began his study under Lavigna.
1836
Verdi appointed maestro to the commune of Busseto.Verdi marries Margherita Barezzi.
1838 to 1840
Death of children (Virginia and Icilio) and wife Margherita.Meets Giuseppina Strepponi for the first time.
1845
Verdi becomes the hero of Italian Music.
1859
Married Giuseppina in Geneva.
1869
Involved in love affair with Teresa Stolz.
1897
Giuseppina Strepponi’s death.
January 27, 1901
Verdi’s death.
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You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
I adore art . . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening . . . And now along comes someone with a one- or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense . . . that was a happy reform.
They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired the organs from their owners. It will cost me about 1,500 lire for the summer, but that is not too large a price to pay for peace.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
I adore art . . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening . . . And now along comes someone with a one- or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense . . . that was a happy reform.
They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired the organs from their owners. It will cost me about 1,500 lire for the summer, but that is not too large a price to pay for peace.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
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