The Life of Verdi (Musical Lives)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521669573
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Genres & Styles - Classical; Composers; Biography / Autobiography; Verdi, Giuseppe,; Music; History & Criticism - General; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Music / Opera; Verdi, Giuseppe,--1813-1901; General; 1813-1901; Biography; Italy
First sentence: According to a dubious story Verdi liked to tell, his mother, her five-month-old son clutched to her breast, hid in the village church tower from Russian troops which in the last months of the Napoleonic wars swept across northern Italy.