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Verdi - The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
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Verdi - The Man Revealed (Hardcover)
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Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy,
the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime
he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a
landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian
independence; but his music tells a different story.; An obsessive
perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works
were rightly lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition
and characterisation. From Rigoletto to Otello, La Traviatato to
Aida, Verdi's canon encompassed the full range of human emotion.
His private life was no less complex: he suffered great loss, and
went out of his way to antagonise many erstwhile supporters,
including his own family. An outspoken advocate of Italian
independence and a sharp critic of the church, he was o en at odds
with nineteenth-century society and paid the price.; In Verdi: The
Man Revealed, John Suchet attempts to get under the skin of perhaps
the most private composer who ever lived. Unpicking his
protestations, his deliberate embellishments and disingenuous
disavowals, Suchet reveals the contradictory and sometimes
curmudgeonly character of this great artist, convicted throughout
much of his life but ultimately unable to walk away from the art
for which he will be forever known.
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