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	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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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giuseppe Verdi
		From 1826 to 1829 he took lessons from Provesi, organist of Busseto cathedral, and in 1831 went to Milan to study under Lavigna.
		Verdi entered on a new phase in 1850, and his "Rigoletto" (produced at Venice on 11 March, 1851) astonished the musical world.
		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.newadvent.org /cathen/15350b.htm (719 words)

	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)

	MSN Encarta - Verdi
		Verdi, also mourning the recent deaths of his wife and two children, decided to give up composing as a result.
		Verdi’s imagination was fired by the story, and his opera Nabucco created a sensation at its premiere in 1842.
		Verdi’s other nonoperatic compositions from this period include the dramatic cantata Inno delle nazioni (Hymn of the Nations, 1862) and the String Quartet in E minor (1873).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565863/Verdi.html (1468 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Giuseppe Verdi was born in October 1813 in Le Roncole, a village in the province of Parma.
		Verdi was fascinated by music, especially the sound of the church organ and, when he was seven, his father, who ran an inn and store, bought him a broken down piano which a neighbor repaired.
		Verdi developed musically to the point where, at the age of ten, he was sent to nearby Busseto to live and study, under the patronage of Antonio Barezzi.
	www.operaworld.com /special/verdi1.shtml (2319 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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	Verdi Web-page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		Verdi died on January 27, 1901 at the age of 88.
	www.csupomona.edu /~ross/CIS311/Tutorials/tutorial07/verdi.htm (349 words)

	verdiana! giuseppe verdi's life and times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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)

	Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Verdi is a young, bright yellow python who is determined NOT to grow up to be like the lazy, curmudgeonly trio of green adults who constantly criticize his antics.
		And what a wild snake Verdi is! He races to the top of a tree, bows a branch down with his "tail," then lets go and sails through the air.
		Verdi grows older -- possibly a little wiser -- but manages to hold on to his individuality in this gentle tale which sneaks plenty of reptilian fact into the rebellious humor.
	www.txla.org /groups/tba/annotations/verdi.html (122 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Giuseppe Verdi: The Life of a Musical Genius
		Verdi was born in the town of Le Roncale, Italy on October 10, 1813.
		Verdi accepted this libretto and named his opera Nabucco, which was performed at La Scala on March 9, 1842 and acclaimed a great “hit” and was soon performed all over the world.
		Verdi’s personal happiness was later restored when he met, lived with, and eventually married soprano, Giuseppina Strepponi, a great inspiration to his life and music.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-2-1/26191.html (545 words)

	Verdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giuseppe Verdi, a famous composer of Italian opera.
		The Federation of the Greens, a Green party in Italy, known colloquially as Verdi, or "Greens".
		The Italian unification movement, named after the composer Giuseppe Verdi (ardent supporter of the movement).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verdi (126 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi: the life
		His untiring and prodigious activity did not succomb even to the old age which he spent in Villa Sant'Agata, very close to Busseto, together with the inseparable and faithful Giuseppina Strepponi, who had been living with him since 1849.
		Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan on the 27th of the January 1901 and he was burried in the Home for Musicians he himself founded.
		Verdi Carlo - Antonio Romanelli - Giacinto Carità - the Vice-Mayor Vitali.
	www.parmaitaly.com /verdik.html (279 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Verdi's Grip
		Verdi seems to have lost little of the mass appeal that brought forth hundreds of thousands of mourners on the day of his funeral, a century ago.
		Verdi was not yet dead when he began to be dismissed as a dated figure.
		Verdi’s was an art of juxtaposition, of jagged contrasts: innocent tunes punctured by repeated, discordant notes; robust marches pushed into the background by desolate monologues.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2004/05/verdi.html (4620 words)

	NYU Today News: NYU to cohost Verdi celebration in January
		Verdi 2001 is a collaboration between NYU's American Institute for Verdi Studies (AIVS), the Italian National Committee to Celebrate the Centenary of Verdi's Death, the National Institute for Verdi Studies of Parma, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
		The subject matter of Verdi 2001 will be the diffusion and reception of Verdi's music and his changing image as a composer during his lifetime and today.
		The focus of Verdi 2001 will be a series of roundtable discussions and research papers, featuring new Verdi scholarship and spirited debate among some 70 scholars, singers, directors, conductors, musicians, dramaturges, writers, critics, and specialists in other areas of music such as the operas of Wagner (Verdi's contemporary).
	www.nyu.edu /nyutoday/archives/14/05/verdi.nyu (363 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Verdi is a proud python, flourishing in the flower of his youth.
		Verdi insists, as so many youngsters do, "I will never be lazy, boring or green!" Despite his resolve to stay young, one day he notices a patch of green spreading down the length of his body.
		Verdi does everything he can think of to erase this first sign of the inevitable tide of age.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1856023974 (861 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi..free music and video operas downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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 and Giuseppina obviously felt very secure in their relationship as it stood, and when they did get married at the end of that decade it was a quiet event, more like an afterthought.
		A letter written to her by Verdi fifty-one years earlier, in 1846 - a letter nobody ever saw except the writer and the recipient - was to be placed on her heart and buried with her, in accordance with her last will and testament.
	opera.prohosting.com /sarir/verdi.html (1969 words)

	Learning Center \| NYC Opera
		In 1829, at the age of 13 he was an assistant conductor of the Busseto ochestra and an organist at the town church.
		Verdi was drawn back to the opera by his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, who introduced him to the celebrated Arrigo Boito.
		Verdi's last opera was the only other comedy he had written since the disastrous Un Giorno di Regno: Falstaff, considered Verdi's humanistic swan song.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/resource/biographies/verdi_giuseppe.aspx?detect=yes (520 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Verdi is an easy-to-like character, and the pictures convey his exuberance and carry the story where the text occasionally falters.
		Verdi is a young python, proud of his adventurous lifestyle and his bold yellow coloring.
		Verdi is a young yellow python who doesn't understand why the adult (green) pythons are such killjoys.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0152010289?v=glance (1647 words)

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		Italy, Verdi was elected to represent Busseto in the newly-formed Italian parliment.
		Verdi then took the melody and passed it to the strings and woodwind sections and modulated the theme to the dominant key.
		Verdi then goes into a transition section, and finally returns to the opening theme, then the main theme and a final majestic ending.
	courses.wcupa.edu /frichmon/mue332/geoffburns/verdi.htm (708 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi - mp3 music - Opera Italiana
		Verdi grew up among the genuine aromas of homely, old tastes of the grocery and inn that his parents ran at Roncole di Busseto.
		Verdi merrily accompanied him through the winding alleys of Genoa and had to carry packs of butter, cheese and tomato sauce whilst his friend held in his arms a well-wrapped pack of maccheroni with the affection of a father holding a little baby.
		"Verdi says that he was stupid to sign this contract because it forces him to work and therefore sweat too much in summer so as to go and cool down too much in winter.
	www.operaitaliana.com /opera_italiana/opere.asp-id=1&Lingua=1.htm (1965 words)

	MICHAEL VERDI
		Published by Verdi on August 14, 2007 in Machinima, Second Life, Other Art, Meta and Videoblog.
		Recently I had to put together a “reel.” Normally, I’m not crazy about doing that kind of thing but I had fun with this one and got some help from my alter ego.
		Published by Verdi on July 17, 2007 in Lumiere and Videoblog.
	michaelverdi.com (385 words)

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		Verdi responded, "The baritone may, of course, be a better artist than the tenor, and Maurel is infinitely more intelligent than Tamagno.
		Verdi was presented with a silver album filled with autographs and cards of every citizen in Milan.
		Verdi said more to me in that single hand-clasp than he has said in all our previous intercourse: more than anyone ever will say.
	www.operapaedia.org /Opera.aspx?article=1101&id=4006 (1075 words)

	Verdi discoveries. Tess Crebbin writes about an interesting CD by Riccardo Chailly CD
		Verdi wrote his own version of Boccanegra's life while he was in Paris and then gave librettist Franceso Piave his modifications to stick by.
		Boccanegra's was a story that Verdi did not wish to be forgotten and his persistence paid off.
		For this, Verdi used original letters by Francesco Petrarca, one to Simon Boccanegra and one to the doge of Venice, which were asking the men to cease the wars between the two republics.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/05/verdi3.htm (434 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Verdi was born on October 10th, 1913 in the village called Roncole in the province of Parma, occupied by Napoléon’s army.
		Verdi ‘s first tutor was an organist from the nearby city of Busseto.
		A very happy fusion of Verdi’s intimate and dramatic poetry with his religious feelings is performed in his swan-song “Quatro pezzi sacri” composed in 1898 in memoriam Giuseppina Strepponi, his second spouse, deceased in 1897.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=verdi (984 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		However, it is in the ensembles of his operas that Verdi's art is seen at its best, whether it be for dramatic effect as in the "Miserere" from Il Trovatore, or in the grand operatic tradition of the "Triumphal March" from Act I of Aïda.
		When Verdi died in 1901 he was admired, revered, and acknowledged as probably the greatest composer Italy had ever produced.
		Many composed in a style reminiscent of Verdi's final operas (particularly Otello), a style that was to influence the emerging verismo school of Italian opera and which led directly to the works of Giacomo Puccini.
	www.ipl.org /div/mushist/rom/verdi.htm (419 words)

	Verdi, Giuseppe -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		One of the leading composers of Italian operas in the 19th century was Giuseppe Verdi.
		Giuseppe Verdi wrote virtually all of his works for the stage—from the first of his 26 operas in 1839 to his last in 1893.
		He was best known for his baritone roles in operas by Giuseppe Verdi; he was considered unsurpassed as Iago in Otello' and as the title role in ‘Rigoletto.' Warren also performed for radio and television.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075079?tocId=9075079 (701 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901)
		Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (born October 9, 1813 in Le Roncole; died January 27, 1901 in Milan) was one of the great composers of Italianopera.
		Verdi died in 1901 after the completion of his Casa di Riposo in a retirement villa for poor artists.
		He died of a stroke in 1901: his funeral was extremely well attended, and a quarter of a million mourners were present to show their respect to one of the most important figures in Italian music.
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	Verdi & Company Consulting Services
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		Through our combination of disciplines and our "high-touch" approach to understanding client needs and local market opportunities, we can be confident that our recommendations will not only fit the unique needs of the organization, but that they can also be implemented and their objectives achieved.
		Verdi and Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Diebold, has a staff of fifteen professionals and is located in Buffalo, New York.
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	Verdi Luthiers en Bass Play
		Verdi Luthiers of Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in marrying tradition with high-tech methods.
		We've gotten orders from several countries." Verdi's Virtual instruments are available in several nylon- or steelstring versions, induding a 4-string bass ($1,500) and a $1,650 "guitarrón" (6-string baritone guitar) tuned A to A, a 5th lower than a guitar.
		Ram6n José Verdi began investigating, restoring, and building traditional instruments in the'70s, later adapting electronic techniques to measure their acoustic properties.
	www.verdi.com.ar /bp.html (366 words)

	Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Verdi dominated the world of Italian opera from his first considerable success in 1842 with Nabucco until his final Shakespearean operas Otello, staged at La Scala, Milan, in 1887, and Falstaff, mounted at the same opera-house in 1893.
		His career coincided with the rise of Italian nationalism and the unification of the country, causes with which he was openly associated.
		In addition to settings of the Te Deum and the Stabat Mater, Verdi wrote an impressive large scale setting of the Requiem, its origin stemming from the death of Rossini in 1868 and the death of the writer Manzoni.
	www.naxos.com /composer/verdi.htm (332 words)

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