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Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
During the middle phase of his career, 1849-1859, Verdi created some of his best-loved and most frequently performed operas, including Luisa Miller, Rigoletto,
Language: en
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-13 - Publisher: Routledge
First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today,
Language: en
Pages: 444
Pages: 444
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situat
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its st
Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer’s career. The first thorough, systematic examination