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Verdi opera list6/26/2023 After more than a year, however, the director of La Scala succeeded in inducing him to write Nabucco (1842). His next work, the comic opera Un giorno di regno (King for a Day, 1840), was a failure, and Verdi, lamenting also the recent deaths of his wife and two children, decided to give up composing. His first opera, Oberto, was produced at La Scala with some success in 1839. He returned to Busseto in 1833 as conductor of the Philharmonic Society.Īt the age of 25 Verdi again went to Milan. Then, upon being rejected in 1832, because of his age, by the Milan Conservatory, he became a pupil of the Milanese composer Vincenzo Lavigna. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (OctoJanuary 27, 1901) was born in Roncole in the former duchy of Parma, he first studied music in the neighboring town of Busseto. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music." ~ Verdi, 1869 "Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned.
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