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	Giuseppe Verdi
		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, and continues to find much favour; it was first performed at Milan on 22 May, 1874.
		Among his religious compositions are: "Pater Noster", for five voices; an "Ave Maria", for soprano solo and strings (both performed in 1880); a "Te Deum", for two four-part choirs, voices, and orchestra; a "Stabat Mater", four-part, and two motets in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
		Verdi's Catholic spirit was shown by his resigning his office as member of the Italian parliament for Busseto; and, subsequently, when, on being appointed a senator by the King of Italy (1875), he went to Rome to be duly admitted, but never assisted at a single sitting.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/verdi,giuseppe.html (683 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verdi was born in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now in the province of Parma).
		When he was still a child, Verdi's parents moved to Busseto from the province of Piacenza, where the future composer's education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school.
		Verdi was one of the first composers who insisted on patiently seeking out plots to suit his (or her) particular talents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi (2467 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 9, 1813 - January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera.
		Verdi is also known as "the swan from Busseto".
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ve/Verdi.html (697 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Giuseppe Verdi \| PBS
		Verdi had begun an opera, and tried to arrange a performance in Parma or Milan; he was unsuccessful but had some songs published and decided to settle in Milan in 1839 where his "Oberto" was accepted at La Scala and further operas commissioned.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/verdi.html (903 words)

	Giuseppe_Verdi
		Verdi was born on October 10, 1813 in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, nowadays in the province of Parma.
		Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies, but the Conservatory of Music rejected him, citing the fact that he was two years over the age limit.
		Giuseppe Verdi was aware of this use of his name and is supposed to have consented.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giuseppe_verdi.html (2100 words)

	Cornerstones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, a small village in the Duchy of Parma.
		Verdi had renewed their friendship a few years earlier, and when Verdi and Strepponi were in Paris, they openly lived together as a couple.
		Verdi's final years were focused on two philanthropic projects, a hospital in the neighboring town of Villanova, and a rest home for aged and indigent musicians in Milan, the Casa di Riposo.
	www.operaworld.com /cornerstones/Aida/aidabio.htm (980 words)

	Composer Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
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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 (2944 words)

	Verdi - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian opera composer, whose works stand among the greatest in the history of opera.
		Verdi’s works are remarkable for their beautiful melodies and dramatic power.
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in Roncole, Italy, in the former duchy of Parma, which at that time was under French rule.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761565863___1/Verdi.html (244 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
		Giuseppe Verdi had begun an opera, and tried to arrange a performance in Parma or Milan; he was unsuccessful but had some songs published and decided to settle in Milan in 1839 where his "Oberto" was accepted at La Scala and further operas commissioned.
		Giuseppe 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 Giuseppe Verdi's operas in politics is easily exaggerated.
		Giuseppe 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.
	www.artbylucian.com /composer/giuseppe_verdi.html (985 words)

	Classical musical midi, a good place to read a composers biography with a list classical midi files for download.
		Verdi, who had recently lost his wife and a year previously his infant son (another child had died before he left Busseto), was overcome with despair and vowed he would never write another opera.
		Verdi read it reluctantly until, coming on the words of a chorus of Jews in captivity, he was suddenly released from his inhibitions.
		Verdi, who could not bear being thwarted, visited his wrath on the unfortunate Mariani, the most distinguished Italian conductor of the day and hitherto one of Verdi's closest friends, who further annoyed Verdi by arranging and directing a commemoration of Rossini at Pesaro, his birthplace.
	www.classicalmidi.co.uk /verdi.htm (2759 words)

	verdi.htm
		Giuseppe Verdi was born at Le Roncole during Napoleon’s occupation of Italy.
		Verdi’s father Carlo insisted young Giuseppe’s formal education begin at the age of four, when he studied music and other subjects with the local priests.
		Oddly, in Verdi’s later life, he tended to hide the consistency and sophistication of his early education and family life, instead choosing to give the impression of a largely self-taught and obscure youth.
	www.marineband.usmc.mil /learning_tools/hall_of_composers/verdi.htm (380 words)

	PlanetPapers - Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901), was an Italian operatic composer.
		Verdi's other non operatic compositions include cantata Into delle nazioni (Hymn of the Nations, 1862) and the String Quartet in E minor (1873).In his 70s, Verdi produced his greatest piece Otello (1887).
		Verdi's works are most noted for their intensity of spirituality and height of musical emotion.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2498.php (341 words)

	verdiana! verdi's librettists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For Verdi he wrote the text for the Inno delle nazioni (1862), collaborated on the major revision of Simon Boccanegra (1881), and provided the libretti of Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
		Verdi's second opera, the comic work Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao (which failed miserably at its premiere and was dropped after one performance) was composed on a Romani libretto originally written for composer Adalbert Gyrowetz.
		His collaboration with Verdi resulted in the libretto of Un Ballo in Maschera (1859) - based on Scribe's 'Gustave III ou Le bal masqué'; previous plans for a 'Re Lear' (King Lear), which Verdi had also drafted with Cammarano earlier that decade, were never carried to their conclusion.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/verdiana/librettists.htm (2182 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)

	Cornerstones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Verdi was the active owner of a farm, Sant'Agata, a generous philanthropist, and the founder of La Casa di Riposo, a retirement home for musicians.
		Verdi built a new manor house, for which he supervised design, construction and gardening, at Sant'Agata and he and Giuseppina Strepponi, his mistress who later became his second wife, moved to the farm in the spring of 1851.
		Giuseppe Verdi was a widely recognized composer of great artistic abilities; however, he was also a generous and dedicated philanthropist, devoted to the well-being of his colleagues and countrymen.
	www.operaworld.com /cornerstones/traviata/verdi.htm (998 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)

	The Timeshare Beat: 100 Years of Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Verdi, who fought his way to musical fame and fortune from humble beginnings in northern Italy, died on January 27, 1901, and his compatriots are preparing to celebrate the centenary in style.
		Verdi's body was sent on its way by an 800-strong choir singing a chorus from the composer's opera "Nabucco" led by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini.
		The attentive visitor, seeing the places where Giuseppe Verdi was born and grew up, where as an adolescent he fell in love with music, and later where the mature man and composer worked, cannot help but notice the strong ties between this land and his intense musical activity.
	www.thetimesharebeat.com /yourworld/verdi.htm (1100 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi Gala
		Verdi created realistic persons in his operas, people with all their passions, people experiencing all their joys and all their sufferings - people just like you and I. This is why his melodies still move us even today.
		Verdi's music enables listeners to experience all the highs and lows humans are capable of feeling, it arouses powerful emotions, whilst always remaining genuine and true and beautiful, so beautiful, just like the skies over Italy.
		Verdi wrote a total of twenty-six operas in the course of his long life, perfecting his mastery from one work to the next.
	www.gastspiel-gerhartz.de /produktionen/2003-2004/en/verdi-info.htm (866 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi
		Verdi was deeply moved by the biblical-sounding verses and the opera premièred two years later, finally revealing his true talent in all its glory.
		Verdi remained there for some time to defend his rights in face of the piracies of the Théâtre des Italiens and to deal with translations of some of his operas.
		Verdi's body was temporarily laid to rest beside that of Giuseppina, in the Cimitero Monumentale, but plans were quickly made to remove them both to the chapel of the Casa di Riposo, the charitable institution and home of rest, founded and endowed by Verdi himself, for 100 retired musicians less fortunate than he.
	www.arena.it /eng/front/documentiING/bio/verdi.html (1400 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
		Giuseppe Verdi, (Joe Green, in English) was born into a family of small landowners and taverners.
		Verdi nearly gave up, but was encouraged by a story and in 1842 saw its successful production, which carried his reputation across Italy, Europe and the New World over the next five years.
		Verdi was involved in political activity at this time, as representative in the parliament of the town where he lived; later he was elected to the national parliament, and ultimately he was a senator.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=428 (645 words)

	Verdi, Giuseppe - Italian operatic composer
		Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901), Italian operatic composer, whose works stand among the greatest in the history of opera.
		Verdi's other non-operatic compositions include the dramatic cantata Inno delle nazioni (Hymn of the Nations, 1862) and the String Quartet in E minor (1873).
		This was followed by Verdi's last opera, Falstaff (1893), also adapted by Boito from Shakespeare, and generally considered one of the greatest of all comic operas.
	www.greatitalians.com /verdi.htm (523 words)

	Houston Civic Symphony Program Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born in the same year as Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) outlived his German counterpart by more than a fifteen years—and produced in that period two operas (Otello and Falstaff) and various other works, such as the forward-looking Quattro pezzi sacri of 1898.
		Verdi’s life would itself make an operatic plot: from modest beginnings, with talent recognized early, through many years of supporting himself as a church organist, studying privately with local masters (he was rejected by the Milan Conservatory), finally emerging as the dominant composer of opera in Italy in his century.
		But Verdi has taken the remarkable step of unifying the overture by including a particular, restless motive in the counterpoint or accompaniment to nearly all of the melodies used.
	www.civicsymphony.org /library.asp?file=051400.html (1562 words)

	Verdi
		Giuseppe Verdi was born into a family of small landowners and taverners.
		Verdi had begun an opera and tried to arrange a performance in Parma or Milan.
		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 (S Marco and La Scala, aptly), Paris, London and Vienna.
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/Verdi.htm (985 words)

	Baltimore Opera - Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Verdi applied to the Conservatory in 1832 at the age of eighteen, but was deemed “lacking in musical talent.” The Conservatory jurors felt that not only was he too old for study (the average age of a student was 14), but that his “mediocre” pianism would be an “embarrassment” to the institution.
		Verdi's personal life took a miserable turn during this time when his wife (Margherita Barezzi, the daughter of his gracious benefactor) and two young children died within a short span.
		Verdi withdrew the opera for a year in order to rework it; when it played again in its new form on May 6, 1854, it was a great success.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /studyguide/traviata_02.asp (817 words)

	Oratorio Society of Charlottesville- Albemarle
		Verdi proposed that the anniversary of his death be commemorated by a Requiem Mass to which all the leading Italian composers of church music should contribute a movement.
		Verdi replied that he was almost persuaded to complete the Requiem on his own.
		Verdi's late compositions had sometimes a tendency to chromaticism and peculiar harmonic shifts.
	www.oratoriosociety.org /Verdi.html (832 words)

	The Genius of Verdi, the Statesmanship of Cavour
		Verdi occupies a prominent place next to Dante, Raphael, Leonardo and a few others, in the gallery of the great figures whom Italians recall to their mind when they think of the idea of Fatherland.
		Verdi left us no treatise on how Classical musical dramas should be composed, but in his letters, he often criticized his contemporaries and made a few remarks on the nature of drama.
		The irony is that Verdi, as he wrote in a letter to Francesco Florimo in 1871,[13] warns most emphatically against the use of such a chord, complaining that music is so degenerated, that anybody can call himself a composer just by showing that he can write a couple of diminished seventh chords.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /music/verdi_eir_ccc.html (9408 words)

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