Verdi: A Novel of the Opera
by Franz Werfel (Author), Giuseppe: Verdi
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Roman om et vigtigt år, 1883, i komponisten Giuseppe Verdis liv (1813-1901), da han i Venedig kredser om sin konkurrent Richard Wagner og omsider slider sig løs af ti års kunstnerisk dødvande.Tags
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El gran compositor Giuseppe Verdi acude a Venecia para escuchar y ver de cerca de su mayor rival: Richard Wagner. Nos encontramos en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, el espíritu revolucionario italiano aún permanece y Verdi ha sido, y sigue siendo, su máximo representante. Por el contrario, Wagner encarna una nueva visión del arte, no sólo del musical, sino del sentido estético en general. El enfrentamiento entre estas dos concepciones del mundo, del arte, de la música y del individuo, constituye el eje argumental de esta novela.
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Born in Prague of Jewish parents, Werfel served in World War I, then lived and wrote in Vienna until driven out by the Nazi occupation of Austria. And the Bridge Was Love: Memories of a Lifetime, by his wife, Alma Werfel, in collaboration with E. B. Ashton, is a deeply personal autobiography of a remarkable life in Vienna by the woman who was also show more married to the composer-conductor Mahler and the architect Gropius. Werfel escaped to the United States after the fall of France in 1940, where he won international recognition for his fiction. The most popular of Werfel's works was the novel The Song of Bernadette (1942), recounting the miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary granted to the young girl who founded Lourdes. Werfel said he wrote the story in honor of his "miraculous" escape from the Nazis but neither affirmed nor denied the miracle at Lourdes. Werfel also wrote lyrical poetry and drama. His comedy Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944) was successfully produced in New York in 1944. In 1967 the Hamburg Opera presented Giselher Klebe's operatic version of the play at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 10, 1813 in Le Ronocole, duchy of Parma, Italy. He studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, a musician at the La Scala opera house. After his first opera Oberto, Verdi left La Scala due to the untimely death of his wife and children. He was eventually convinced to come back and compose Nabucco, an opera based on show more Nebuchadrezzar II. He then went on to compose Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Othello and Falstaff. He died on January 27, 1901 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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