Verdi

By Victor Lederer

Subjects: Vocal music, Opera, Music appreciation, Musicians, biography, Choral music, Operas, Analysis, appreciation, Verdi, giuseppe, 1813-1901

Description: Lederer surveys each of the master's 28 operas and his greatest choral pieces, showing Verdi's growth as a musical dramatist--he would revolutionize the hidebound conventions of 19th-century Italian opera--and his single-minded pursuit of dramatic truth.