Verdi : the man revealed /

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Author / Creator:Suchet, John, 1944-
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Imprint:New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
Description:279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11616384
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ISBN:9781681777689
1681777681
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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 lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization.