Verdi, Giuseppe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
VERDI, GIUSEPPE var de, Ital. joozep pa ver de, 1813 1901, foremost Italian composer of opera, b. Le Roncole. Verdi, the son of an innkeeper, showed a precocious talent for...the music assuming a new dramatic importance to the story. Verdi next composed his great Requiem (1874) in memory of the...