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Giuseppe Verdi

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Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian composer whose operas dominated the Italian stage for more than half a century and remain central to the international repertoire. Beginning with early successes such as Nabucco, he went on to write Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida, and the late masterpieces Otello and Falstaff, works prized for their dramatic directness, memorable melody, and increasingly sophisticated orchestration and characterization. Verdi's operas were closely bound up with Italian national feeling during unification, and choruses such as Va, pensiero from Nabucco became popular expressions of patriotic sentiment, making him a figure of cultural as well as musical importance in nineteenth-century Italy.

Facts
Birth Year
1813 1
Death Year
1901 1
Nationality
Italian 1
Death Date
1901-01-27 1
Birthplace
Le Roncole, French Empire 1
Death Place
Milan, Italy 1
Training
Studied privately under Vincenzo Lavigna, former maestro concertatore at La Scala, after being refused admission to the Milan Conservatory 1
Disputed
Birth Date
1813-10-09 1
The baptismal register, prepared 11 October 1813, lists Verdi as "born yesterday"; since days were often considered to begin at sunset, this could mean either 9 or 10 October. Verdi himself always celebrated 9 October.
Classification
Gender
Male 1
Connections

In Movement

Romanticism, Movements

Central Italian Romantic-era opera composer.

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1. Giuseppe Verdi (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead paragraph 1
    was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
  • Lead paragraph 1 (birth-death parenthetical)
    9 or 10 October 1813-27 January 1901
  • Childhood and education section
    Verdi, the first child of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini, was born at their home in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Taro department within the borders of the First French Empire.
  • Falstaff and last years section
    Verdi suffered a stroke on 21 January 1901. He gradually grew feebler over the next week, during which Stolz cared for him, and died on 27 January at the age of 87.
  • Infobox: death_place field
    death_place = [[Milan]], Italy
  • 1834-42: First operas section
    Barezzi made arrangements for him to become a private pupil of Vincenzo Lavigna, who had been maestro concertatore at La Scala, and who described Verdi's compositions as "very promising".
  • Childhood and education section (birthday tradition)
    Following his mother, Verdi always celebrated his birthday on 9 October, the day he himself believed he was born.
  • Gender reference
    Beginning with early successes such as Nabucco, he went on to write Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida, and the late masterpieces Otello and Falstaff, works prized for their dramatic directness, memorable melody, and increasingly sophisticated orchestration and characterization.
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