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Author | : Marcello Conati |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780801494307 |
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An anthology of reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and essays by a wide-ranging group of people--journalists, musicians, impresarios, or chance acquaintances--who met the reclusive and secretive composer at various moments during his long life. Each entry has a relevant place within the chronology of Verdi's life, and every reference to an unfamiliar event or name in the text is explained in the copious footnotes.
Author | : Marcello Conati |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marcello Conati |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780575033498 |
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Verzameling documenten van en over de Italiaanse componist (1813-1901), voorafgegaan door uitgebreide commentaren.
Author | : George Whitney Martin |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1580463886 |
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A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life.
Author | : Gundula Kreuzer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521519195 |
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This book explores how the reception of Italian opera, epitomised by Verdi, influenced changing ideas of German musical and national identity.
Author | : Donald Sanders |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810884682 |
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Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular artists, composers, and genres. Looking at the context in which the music appeared as well as its form, authors explore with readers the environments in which key musical works were written and performed—from a 1950s bebop concert at the Village Vanguard to a performance of Handel’s Messiah in eighteenth-century Germany. Along with his contemporaries Chopin and Wagner, Verdi is among the few composers whose place in the musical pantheon is based almost entirely upon the mastery of a single genre. This is largely owing to his staggering output in a career that lasted over fifty years. Several of his operas occupy the nucleus of the modern repertoire, and Verdi almost single-handedly maintained the Italian lyric tradition against the tide of Wagnerian music drama. In his final years, he virtually reinvented Italian opera. Indeed, Verdi’s life and music came to be so intimately associated with the Italian unification movement known as the Risorgimento that he is still revered as a great national figure in his homeland. In Experiencing Verdi: A Listener’s Companion, Donald Sanders combines biography with simple, concise musical analysis. Summarizing the evolution of Italian opera and the bel canto tradition that prevailed at the beginning of Verdi’s career, Sanders takes readers on a leisurely tour of eleven of Verdi’s most important operas and of the Manzoni Requiem and concludes with a look at Verdi’s influence on later composers like Giacomo Puccini, his place in the modern repertoire, and his role as an Italian patriot. With a timeline, glossary of basic musical terms, and selected reading and listening recommendations, Experiencing Verdi will engage opera lovers at all levels, from those just starting to listen, learn, and enjoy to musical devotees.
Author | : Scott L. Balthazar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-11-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139825836 |
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This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdi's life, his role in transforming the theater business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdi's career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos and Otello synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdi's creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdi's non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and scholarly writing about Verdi from the nineteenth-century to the present day.
Author | : Gregory W. Harwood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2012-05-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136317236 |
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This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.
Author | : George Whitney Martin |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780879101725 |
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This collection of original essays ranges widely among the composer's interests and achievements: from his religious views to his skill as a cook, from the politics that galvanized him to the poetry that inspired him, from his earliest compositions to his final masterwork, Falstaff, completed at the age of 80. Drawing on original research and scholarship, this book also contains two of Verdi's early works, never before published in this form; a translated collection of his letters, also heretofore unpublished; the text of the Requiem with indications of Verdi's emphases; and a directory of his operas with sources, casts, theatres, and premiere dates.
Author | : Julian Budden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2008-04-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199886636 |
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In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.