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Giuseppe Verdi


Born
in Le Roncole, Parma, Italy
October 09, 1813

Died
January 27, 1901

Genre
Music


Fullest artistic form of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, included La Traviata in 1853, Aïda in 1871, and Otello in 1887; people credit him with raising the genre.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
* "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
* "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco , and
* "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song).

Masterworks of Giuseppe Verdi used a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and people sometimes criticized tendency toward melodrama, whic ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 1,435 ratings · 173 reviews · 1,619 distinct works • Similar authors
La Traviata
4.16 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1853 — 347 editions
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Rigoletto
4.08 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1851 — 16 editions
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Il Trovatore
4.03 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1853 — 206 editions
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Otello in Full Score
4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1888 — 153 editions
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Requiem in Full Score
4.66 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1874 — 36 editions
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Nabucco (Operndrama in vier...
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3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1842 — 25 editions
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Falstaff: English National ...
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4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1893 — 186 editions
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Don Carlo, Don Carlos
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1977 — 111 editions
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Macbeth (English National O...
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4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1847 — 132 editions
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Un Ballo in Maschera (A Mas...
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1859 — 102 editions
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“You may have the universe if I may have Italy”
― Giuseppe Verdi
tags: italy
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“Show pity I beg you...
We have today been struck down by fortune
But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.”
― Guiseppe Verdi
tags: fortune, pity
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