Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

by David R.B. Kimbell

Professor Kimbell's classic study illuminates the first fifteen years of Verdi's composing career, the era that culminated in his trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Verdi had become an acknowledged master of the peculiar brand of Romanticism that flourished in Italy in the 1830s and 40s; this background is examined in its political, social and literary light, and his consequent transformation of Italian operatic conventions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521316782
• ISBN13: 9780521316781
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"