Verdi

by Julian Budden

Book Overview

The twenty-six operas of Giuseppe Verdi are among the world's best-loved music. In works such as Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aida, Verdi developed the musical language of high Romanticism that still speaks to listeners around the world. And Verdi's life story was just as full of the twists and turns, tragedies and scandals, and unexpected events of the most romantic of his operas. But above all else, the story of Verdi's life is the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028646169
• ISBN13: 9780028646169
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Schirmer G Books
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"