Giuseppe Verdi
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- Born:
- October 9, 1813 or October 10, 1813 Italy
- Notable Works:
- “Aida” “Don Carlos” “Ernani” “Falstaff” “Il trovatore” “La battaglia di Legnano” “La traviata” “Nabucco” “Oberto, conte de San Bonifacio” “Otello” “Quattro pezzi sacri” “Requiem” “Rigoletto” “Simon Boccanegra” “The Force of Destiny” “The Sicilian Vespers” “Un ballo in maschera” “Un giorno di regno”
- Movement / Style:
- Romanticism
Giuseppe Verdi, in full Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, (born October 9/10, 1813, Roncole, near Busseto, duchy of Parma [Italy]—died January 27, 1901, Milan, Italy), leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874). Verdi’s father, Carlo Giuseppe Verdi, an innkeeper and owner of a small farm, gave his son the best education that could be mustered in a tiny village, near a small town of about 4,000 inhabitants, in the then-impoverished ...(100 of 3919 words)