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Father and daughter relationships are a recurrent theme in his work, as are the subjects of injustice, oppression and religious hypocrisy. A profoundly serious man, his final opera was a brilliant comedy.

Giuseppe verdi cause of death

Verdi liked to give the impression that he came from a peasant background. However, he benefited hugely from an ambitious, middle-class father, who arranged music lessons and many other opportunities for him. Verdi began his education before he was four. When he was seven, his father bought him a spinet. By the age of nine, young Giuseppe was the resident organist at the church of San Michele, Roncole.

Aged ten, he moved to Busseto to further his education. From , he lodged at the home of Antonio Barezzi, a successful merchant and keen amateur musician.

Giuseppe verdi most famous works

Barezzi sponsored his further musical studies in Milan before Verdi returned to Busseto in as maestro di musica. In the same year, he married Margherita, and they soon had two children. With his personal life shattered and his professional life disrupted by grief, he turned his focus to composing opera. On the basis of this, he was commissioned to write three operas for La Scala.

The first, Un giorno di regno , was a flop, but his follow-up, Nabucco , was such a sensation that Verdi had a stream of new commissions. By he had written sixteen new operas. He tried to take control of his artistic legacy by accompanying his opera scores with books of stage directions.