Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism
ISBN-10
0521230527
ISBN-13
9780521230520
Category
Music
Pages
736
Language
English
Published
1981-04-23
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
David R. B. Kimbell

Description

Professor Kimbell's classic study illuminates the first fifteen years of Verdi's composing career, the era that culminated in his trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Verdi had become an acknowledged master of the peculiar brand of Romanticism that flourished in Italy in the 1830s and 40s; this background is examined in its political, social and literary light, and his consequent transformation of Italian operatic conventions is analysed. The four parts of Professor Kimbell's book range over biographical, documentary, literary and close-analytical ground. Attention is given to individual operas in order to show how Verdi assimilated and developed the Romantic tradition in his work.

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