The great Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was born on 10 October 1813. His parents were Carlo Verdi and Luigia Uttini.Verdi was characterized in his operas as a highly expressive composer.
At the early age of 3 Verdi already began to play the keyboard.
Giuseppe Verdi is famous for his themes of freedom, heroism and love, great feelings that are evident in his works. He not only composed operas but also marches, symphonies, ecclesiastical and secular music.
Giuseppe Verdi married at the age of 22 Barezzi's daughter, Margherita, with whom he had two children, who unfortunately died at an early age.
Verdi was accused, for his work in his opera Othello, of copying Wagner's style. These accusations were unfounded.
After his first wife died, Verdi married Giuseppina Strepponi, a soprano.
Some of Giuseppe Verdi's most important operas are: Rigoletto, La Traviata and Il Trovatore. Which compose his romantic trilogy.
The conservatory of Milan, which had denied him his entry as a young man, wanted to be renamed with the name of the composer himself, thanks to his popularity and success in his maturity, to which he replied: "They did not want me as a young man, I do not know why they want me as an old man". Today the conservatory bears his name.
Verdi dies in Milan, on January 27, 1901, due to a stroke. A large crowd in the funeral procession will sing the chorus of the slaves of Nabucco ("Va pensiero sull'ali dorate").
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