Giuseppe Verdi | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Giuseppe Verdi


00:01:44 1 Life
00:01:53 1.1 Childhood and education
00:07:56 1.2 1834–1842: First operas
00:10:58 1.3 1842–49
00:21:46 1.4 1849–53: Fame
00:27:22 1.5 1853–60: Consolidation
00:31:41 1.6 Politics
00:35:11 1.7 1860–87: from iLa forza/i to iOtello/i
00:41:36 1.8 1887–1901: iFalstaff/i and last years
00:45:26 2 Personality
00:47:35 3 Music and form
00:47:51 3.1 Spirit
00:50:58 3.2 Periods
00:51:55 3.2.1 Early period
00:55:57 3.2.2 Middle period
00:59:21 3.2.3 Late period
01:01:40 3.2.4 Final works
01:04:27 4 Legacy
01:04:36 4.1 Reception
01:06:41 4.2 Memorials and film and stage portrayals
01:08:25 4.3 Verdi today
01:10:12 4.3.1 Debate on operas being political



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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi]; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron.  Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him. By his 30s, he had become one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.
In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi, however, did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the 2013 bicentenary of his birth was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.