Budden, Julian - Verdi

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.

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CONTENTS

Preface
Illustrations
Key to sigla
1 Early life at Busseto
2 Success and failure in Milan
3 The journeyman
4 Florence, London and Paris
5 Return to Busseto
6 Viva V.E.R.D.I.
7 The new order
8 The dark decade
9 Indian summer
10 The last years
11 Verdi as man and artist
12 The Music
13 The background
14 From Oberto to Ernani
15 The prison years
16 The high noon
17 Towards grand opera
18 The final masterpieces
19 Miscellaneous operatic compositions
20 Chamber compositions
21 Choral and religious works
Appendices
A: Calendar
B: List of works
C: Personalia
D: Select bibiliograph
E: Glossary of nineteenth-century operatic terms
Index

Series	Master Musicians