Verdi, Giuseppe
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1813-1901

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Born: 9 October 1813, Roncole, Italy
Died: 27 January 1901, Milano, Italy

Verdi by Gravure de Boldini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, RomeVerdi, Giuseppe

Verdi was born in the Italian village of Le RoncoleThe birth house of  Verdi and the San Michele church where he practiced as a young boy on the organ - Roncole near BussetoPiazza Verdi and the Teatro Verdi in Busseto. Being a son of a poor family who exhibited a musical talent, Verdi's father bought him a cheap spinet, so he could learn to play the organ. And indeed he kept learning, with much effort, and became Italy's most predominant opera composer. Unlike Rossini, who filled his operas with extravagant arias, Verdi considered the role of an opera singer as dramatic no less than musical. Unlike Wagner, Verdi never put his own views in his operas, however, many people perceived the will for freedom and justice in his work as a defiance to Austrian occupation in Italy.

Verdi's statue in Piazza Verdi, Busseto

"Nabucco" - the opera first performed soon after Verdi lost his two children and wife, was a big success and helped him through this crisis. Other operas he composed, "Rigoletto", "La Traviatta", "The Force of Destiny" ("La Forza del Destino") and "Aida"March from the opera ' Aida' - Verdi' Aida' Overture - Verdi - ordered for the initiation of the Suez Canal in Egypt - are among the best-loved pieces in opera repertory.

The RequiemPart 6 'Lux aeterna' from Messa da Requiem - Verdi he wrote for the memory of his friend, the poet Manzoni, is considered the height of his religious work, and the opera "Othello" is one of the best he composed during his last days.

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