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Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Paperback Library

Opera

ISBN10: 0521316782
ISBN13: 9780521316781
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 1 1985
Pages: 720
Weight: 2.29
Height: 1.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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