Verdi
by Julian Budden
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In this third edition of the classic 'Verdi', renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy.Tags
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The 26 operas of Giuseppe Verdi are among the world's best-loved music. In works such as Rigoletto, Il trovatore and Aida, Verdi developed the musical language of high Romanticism that still speaks to listeners around the world. This is the best one-volume introduction to the most popular of all composers and includes his complete life story and analysis of his most famous works.
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Julian Budden (1924-2007) served as the Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio as the President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy. In addition to his Master Musicians volume on Verdi, he is also the author of the Master Musicians biography of Puccini (OUP, 2002) as well as the three-volume The Operas of Verdi (OUP, 1978-1981, show more revised edition 1992). show less
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- Canonical title*
- Verdi : Leben und Werk
- Original title
- Verdi
- Original publication date
- 1985
- People/Characters*
- Giuseppe Verdi
- First words*
- Es gibt nur wenige Komponisten, die während der vergangenen fünfzig Jahre in so spektakulärer Weise eine Neubewertung erfahren haben wie Giuseppe Verdi, und zwar besonders außerhalb Italiens.
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- Genres
- Music, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.1092 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal music Operas and related dramatic vocal forms; concert versions modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- ML410 .V4 .B9 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- English, French, German, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 14
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