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A magnificently detailed portrait of the great Italian composer (1813-1901) that refutes many myths and uncovers some unsavory new material, including the strong likelihood that before their marriage Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi conceived several children who were abandoned at birth. Just as important as her full-bodied rendering of Verdi's personal life is Phillips-Matz's powerful delineation of his confrontations with pre-Unification Italy's foreign masters. Verdi's art was deeply political, she reminds us, and he used his wild popularity to ensure that it would be heard in the form he intended.
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In this monumental study, Phillips-Matz, a cofounder of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University, illuminates the life of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the Italian composer of enduring sacred works and operas including Rigoletto , La Traviata , Don Carlos and Aida . Drawing on papers in public and private archives, as well as original documents and interviews provided by Verdi's descendants, Phillips-Matz attempts to separate legend (much of it fostered by Verdi himself) from fact, providing perspective on the more sensationalistic aspects of his life, such as Verdi's numerous love affairs, his legal separation from his parents and his feuds with the citizens of his home town of Busseto. Although not stinting on his creative output, Phillips-Matz recognizes that music was just one aspect of Verdi's life; he was an avid farmer, active in the management of his large estates, a supporter of various charitable and political causes and, because of the popularity of his operas worldwide, a national hero. Involved in the turbulence of the Risorgimento , Verdi had close ties to major nationalistic figures like Camillo Benso Cavour. Quotations from many of the composer's letters as well as those of his friends, family and his second wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, add to the value of this exhaustive, superb biography. Photos not seen by PW .
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A magnificently detailed portrait of the great Italian composer (1813-1901) that refutes many myths and uncovers some unsavory new material, including the strong likelihood that before their marriage Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi conceived several children who were abandoned at birth. Just as important as her full-bodied rendering of Verdi's personal life is Phillips-Matz's powerful delineation of his confrontations with pre-Unification Italy's foreign masters. Verdi's art was deeply political, she reminds us, and he used his wild popularity to ensure that it would be heard in the form he intended.
From Publishers Weekly
In this monumental study, Phillips-Matz, a cofounder of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University, illuminates the life of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the Italian composer of enduring sacred works and operas including Rigoletto , La Traviata , Don Carlos and Aida . Drawing on papers in public and private archives, as well as original documents and interviews provided by Verdi's descendants, Phillips-Matz attempts to separate legend (much of it fostered by Verdi himself) from fact, providing perspective on the more sensationalistic aspects of his life, such as Verdi's numerous love affairs, his legal separation from his parents and his feuds with the citizens of his home town of Busseto. Although not stinting on his creative output, Phillips-Matz recognizes that music was just one aspect of Verdi's life; he was an avid farmer, active in the management of his large estates, a supporter of various charitable and political causes and, because of the popularity of his operas worldwide, a national hero. Involved in the turbulence of the Risorgimento , Verdi had close ties to major nationalistic figures like Camillo Benso Cavour. Quotations from many of the composer's letters as well as those of his friends, family and his second wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, add to the value of this exhaustive, superb biography. Photos not seen by PW .
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Emanuele Senici in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Robert Justin Goldstein on page 121, and page 123
- The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Scott L. Balthazar in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms by Jolanta T. Pekacz on