Verdi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195323429)

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.


Author: Julian Budden
ISBN-10: 0195323424
ISBN-13: 9780195323429
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2008
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.46w x 1.47d

About the Author

Julian Budden (1924-2007) served as the Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio as the President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy. In addition to his Master Musicians volume on Verdi, he is also the author of the Master Musicians biography of Puccini (OUP, 2002) as well as the
three-volume The Operas of Verdi (OUP, 1978-1981, revised edition 1992).