Verdi

by Budden, Julian

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Title Statements

Full title :Verdi / Julian Budden.

Summary

"In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist. Budden traces his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, while demonstrating the gradual enlargement of his artistic vision over the years."

"This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details of Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 412 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780195323429, 0195323424, 9780190273989, 0190273984
oclc:ocn173807500
LC Classification:ML410.V4
Dewey Decimal:B

pt. I. The life. Early life at Busseto ; Success and failure in Milan ; The journeyman ; Florence, London and Paris ; Return to Busseto ; Viva V.E.R.D.I. ; The new order ; The dark decade ; Indian summer ; The last years ; Verdi as man and artist -- pt. II. The music. The background ; From Oberto to Emani. Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Un giorno di regno, Nabucco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Emani ; The prison years. I due Foscari, Giovanna d'Arco, Alzira, Attila, Macbeth, I masnadieri, Jérusalem, Il corsaro, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller ; The high noon. Stiffelio, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata ; Towards grand opera. Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Aroldo, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos, Aida ; The final masterpieces. Otello, Falstaff ; Miscellaneous operatic compositions ; Chamber compositions ; Choral and religious works -- Appendices. Calendar ; List of works ; Personalia ; Select bibliography ; Glossary of nineteenth-century operatic terms.