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	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi was born in Roncole in 1813, a small village near Busseto in the Duchy of Parma, which was then part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy.
		Verdi's self-imposed retirement was a result of the decline of the popularity of his early operas, revised or not.
		Verdi was also increasingly interested in Renaissance Music, especially in compositions by Palestrina whom he considered the father of Italian music, in analogy of Bach's importance for Germany.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo13/verdi.htm (3052 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verdi was born on October 10, 1813 in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now in the province of Parma).
		At the age of thirty-eight, Verdi began an affair with Giuseppina Strepponi, a soprano in the twilight of her career.
		Giuseppe Verdi was aware of this use of his name and is supposed to have consented.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi (2437 words)

	Wikipedia: Giuseppe Verdi
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 - January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera.
		While Milan was lost and reconquered by the Austrians, Verdi wrote Il corsaro, La battaglia di Legnano, and Luisa Miller, and started a Manon Lescaut which he would never finish.
		More curiously, someone discovered that his surname, Verdi, is the acronym of Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel King of Italy), when Milan (still under Austrian occupation) was beginning to consider supporting Victor Emmanuel's effort in Italian reunification, as it afterwards did.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/g/gi/giuseppe_verdi.html (788 words)

	Verdi, Giuseppe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Verdi, the son of an innkeeper, showed a precocious talent for the organ but was refused entrance to the Milan Conservatory as having been inadequately trained.
		Verdi’s style was further developed in Un ballo in maschera [a masked ball] (1859) and La forza del destino [the power of destiny] (1862).
		Verdi greatly admired Shakespeare, on whose plays three of his operas are based—Macbeth (1847; rev. version 1865) and the masterpieces of his old age, Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893; based on The Merry Wives of Windsor), for both of which Boito was librettist.
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	Giuseppe Verdi - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Verdi is nowadays most famous for his music (as opposed to his own times when he was most famous for Mozart's music), with a long and distinguished career spanning medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, psytrance and romantic eras.
		In 1903, two years after Verdi's death, he won a Papal ballot, in which two-thirds of the cardinals assembled for conclave inexplicably wrote his name on their voting slips, even though he was already dead.
		The evil ghost of Giuseppe Verdi has sworn vengeance against all stamp collectors of the world, because every time a stamp collector puts a stamp into his or her album, Giuseppe Verdi's ghost has to watch an episode of Blues Clues in hell.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi (1147 words)

	MSN Encarta - Verdi
		Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian opera composer, whose works stand among the greatest in the history of opera.
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in Roncole, Italy, in the former duchy of Parma, which at that time was under French rule.
		Verdi’s imagination was fired by the story, and his opera Nabucco created a sensation at its premiere in 1842.
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	Opera Illinois: Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Verdi bounced back and forth between Milan and Busseto until he was named maestro of the Busseto Philharmonic in March 1836.
		Verdi's first opera, Oberto, was brought to the stage at La Scala in November 1839 and ran for multiple performances.
		Verdi's death left all Italy in mourning, and he still is revered throughout the music world as the greatest of operatic composers and, more particularly, in Italy as a patriotic hero and champion of human rights.
	www.operaillinois.com /previous/2002-2003/trovatore/verdi.htm (819 words)

	verdiana! giuseppe verdi's life and times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Verdi is born at 8 o'clock in the evening on October 10 (birth certificate) at Le Roncole in the Duchy of Parma, then part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy.
		Verdi is elected to represent Busseto in the Assembly of Parma provinces.
		Verdi agrees to compose an opera for the Egyptian Khedive's new opera house in Cairo (and not for the opening of the Suez Canal, as is often heard).
	www.r-ds.com /opera/verdiana/chronology.htm (1890 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi – Wikipedia
		Verdi hatte seinem Librettisten Antonio Ghislanzoni ein detailliertes „Drehbuch“ vorgegeben und sogar auf die verwendeten Versmaße Einfluss genommen.
		Verdi knüpfte an die Leistungen von Gioacchino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Saverio Mercadante und Gaetano Donizetti an, wandelte das Erreichte um und leitete eine Periode des ständigen Suchens, schließlich der dramaturgischen Vollendung und der Verfeinerung ein.
		Giuseppe Verdis Asche ist mit der seiner zweiten Frau in der Krypta des Heims bestattet.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi (1878 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi's gift for stirring melody and tragic and heroic situations struck a chord in an Italy struggling for freedom and unity, causes with which he was sympathetic; but much opera of this period has political themes and the involvement of Verdi's operas in politics is easily exaggerated.
		Verdi was involved himself in political activity at this time, as representative of Busseto (where he lived) in the provincial parliament; later, pressed by Cavour, he was elected to the national parliament, and ultimately he was a senator.
		Verdi was ready to give up opera; his works of 1873 are a string quartet and the vivid, appealing Requiem in honour of the poet Manzoni, given in 1874-5, in Milan (San Marco and La Scala, aptly), Paris, London and Vienna.
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	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi was born in Italy in the village of Roncole near Busseto in 1813.
		Verdi composed nine operas in the decade of the forties and most had at least one scene that struck a patriotic response.
		Verdi became a symbol of Italian patriotism and the slogan VIVA VERDI (Verdi being an acronym for Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia) was used to symbolize the favorite among Italians to be king of a united Italy.
	www.edinboro.edu /cwis/music/Cordell/comp-verdi.html (1077 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi returned to Busseto, near his hometown, but was passed over for a position as maestro di cappella; instead, he became town music master in 1836.
		Verdi deserves to be reckoned in the category of church composers; his "Requiem" (written for the anniversary of Manzoni's death) is a work of art...
		Verdi's personal character was a bundle of contradictions: He was at times brusque, demanding, economical, good-natured, humorous, modest, solitary, spirited and unapproachable.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1010a-almanac.htm (640 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2005-06 Broadcasts
		Verdi was born sometime between Oct. 9 and Oct. 11 (the records are unclear), 1813.
		Barezzi helped Verdi go to Milan, where he was refused enrollment at the conservatory on the grounds that he was 19, which was considered too old, and not proficient enough at keyboard playing.
		Despite this rebuff, Verdi studied privately with an accompanist at La Scala in Milan and the mentor saw to it that Verdi attended the opera regularly.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/composer.cgi?id=95&language=1 (464 words)

	Romantic Composers - Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giuseppe Verdi was, at the least, one of the most popular Italian opera composers of the Romantic period.
		Verdi then traveled to Milan to finish his music education and at age 22 returned to Busetto to become the municipal music director.
		Verdi was also very involved in politics and was elected deputy to the first Italian parliament in 1861 and later was appointed Senator by the King of Italy.
	www.bellevuechamberchorus.net /Research/Romantic/Composer/GVerdi.htm (351 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While Milan was lost and reconquered by the Austrians, Verdi wrote,, and Luisa Miller, and started a Manon Lescaut which he would never finish.
		A month later, the bodies of Verdi and his wife were both moved to the Casa di Riposo in Milan.
		They saw in Verdi's works a sadness which reflected many of their own unhappinesses with the status quo, and a vibrance which conjured romantic visions of Italian unification.
	www.norco.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Giuseppe_Verdi (1364 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) ========================== Giuseppe Verdi was born in Roncole on October 10th, 1813, the son of a tavern keeper.
		Verdi learned music starting at the age of three from a pastor in his village's church using a spinette that Verdi owned.
		After retiring to become a gentleman farmer in Sant'Agata near his birthplace, Verdi was persuaded to return to composing with the opportunity to create an opera based on Shakespeare's "Othello." The result, "Otello" in 1887, is a masterpiece of dramatic pacing and musical structure.
	www.csupomona.edu /~rhquachly/CIS311/tutorials/tutorial07/verdi.htm (364 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi biography - 8notes.com
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 –; January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera.
		In keeping with his humble origin, Verdi took pride in the engagement of the peasant girl (Artemisa) he fathered when he was already 63 to the Guardia Forestale Ernesto and attended their wedding in Langhirono a few years before his death.
		Giuseppe Verdi: Va Pensiero (from "Nabucco" - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) Composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), edited by Donald Neuen.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/verdi.asp (1641 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Giuseppe Verdi's Aida back in Egypt
		Giuseppe Verdi was inspired to write AIDA by the wonders of Ancient Egypt, its magnificent pyramids and temples, and its rich heritage.
		Verdi wrote AIDA in four months but its premiere had to be delayed.
		Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1910) was one of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /aida_mainpage.htm (278 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi News
		Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera, which opens tonight in a Florida Grand Opera production, boasts a libretto by his collaborator Francesco Maria Piave based on Victor Hugo, who...
		Giuseppe Verdi is known for his grand, dramatic operas of power, thwarted passion, and bloodthirsty revenge, but the very last score he composed, at the age of 80, was the rollicking comedy "Falstaff" with a...
		Giuseppe Verdi's traditional image could not be further removed from the chamber music repertoire, and yet during an illness-laden production of Aida, the opera maestro decided to while away the hours by...
	www.topix.net /who/giuseppe-verdi (590 words)

	Verdi Tribute - Karadar free MP3 - totally legal and free
		He was rejected for admission, although one of the examiners suggested that he "forget about the Conservatory and choose a maestro in the city." Verdi studied composition in Milan with Vincenzo Lavigna, a composer and the maestro at Teatro alla Scala.
		Verdi was famous, commanding a higher fee than any other composer of his time.
		Verdi's triumph in retaining the libretto and melodic themes the censors had hoped to ban as "religious" in nature forged the composer's lifelong reputation as an ideological hero of the Italian people.
	www.karadar.com /verdi/life_En.htm (753 words)

	verdi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Verdi was born in Le Roncole, near Busseto, Parma in 1813 and he died in Milan in 1901.
		Overcome by grief he vowed never to compose again, but luckily he was persuaded to have a look at a libretto which inspired him and he wrote "Nabucco", his first real success.
		Verdi's stature as one of the 2 or 3 greatest opera composers is unchallengeable.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1835/verdi.htm (284 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi received some instruction from the village organist, but his musical education really began with his entrance into the house of business of Antonio Barezzi, a merchant of Busseto.
		Verdi kept thoroughly abreast of modern musical development, but his artistic sense prevented him from falling into the excesses of the German school.
		After this it was generally supposed that Verdi, who had reached an advanced age, had finally relinquished composition, but after a lapse of some years it became known that he was at work upon a new opera, and in 1887 Otello was produced at Milan.
	www.nndb.com /people/193/000025118 (1449 words)

	The Dallas Opera - Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi was rejected, but remained in Milan taking private lessons for two years, in order to correct his deficiencies when he began work on an opera entitled, Oberto.
		Verdi was toying with the idea of setting King Lear to music when his beloved wife died in 1897, killing his desire to compose.
		Verdi was so loved that the streets around the hotel, where he lay dying, were covered in a thick layer of straw to muffle the sound of traffic.
	www.dallasopera.org /the_season/070801-composer.php (708 words)

	Composer Giuseppe Verdi Bust
		Guiseppe Verdi compositions were strong sombre stories, vigorous almost crude orchestral style which grew fuller and richer and more forceful, to convey the full force of the drama as he felt it.
		At one point, Verdi involved himself in political activity, as representative of Busseto in the provincial parliament and eventually he was elected to the national parliament, and ultimately Composer Verdi became a senator.
		Giuseppe Verdi born in Roncole, Italy on October 9, 1813 and died in Milan on January 27, 1901.
	www.eleganza.com /busts-famous-people-gallery/3-12-composer-giuseppe-verdi-mb.html (444 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi: Biography - Classic Cat
		Verdi was born in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
		Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies and he took private lessons in counterpoint while attending operatic performances, as well concerts of, specifically, German music.
		Verdi adored his wife and children, and he was devastated when they all died in the prime of youth.
	www.classiccat.net /verdi_g/biography.htm (2986 words)

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