- Fact 2 - Giuseppe Verdi was born in
Roncole, Italy, October 10, 1813
- Fact 3 - He began to learn the
Spinet when he was 7 years old
- Fact 4 - The Spinet is an early
form of the piano
- Fact 5 - Among the great composers
who were alive when Verdi was a child were: Beethoven, Schubert,
Berlioz and Schumann
- Fact 6 - He became organist at
Roncole when he was 10 years old
- Fact 7 - He went to school in
Busseto and lived with a cobbler
- Fact 8 - Giuseppe Verdi then
studied in Milan
- Fact 9 - He was told that he had no
special talent for music at the famous Milan Conservatory
- Fact 10 - Giuseppe Verdi wrote
thirty operas
- Fact 11 - The first opera was
performed in 1839, when he was 26 years old
- Fact 12 - One of his operas has its
scene laid in Boston, Massachusetts
- Fact 13 - Another opera was about
Egypt, and the scene is laid in Memphis and Thebes, in the time
of the Pharaohs
- Fact 14 - Verdi founded the Casa di
Riposo (House of Rest) for aged musicians
- Fact 15 - Verdi also wrote a string
quartet, The Manzoni Requiem, and a National Hymn
- Fact 16 - For a period of 16 years
Verdi wrote no operas. Then he produced his two great works
called Othello and Falstaff
- Fact 17 - Giuseppe Verdi died at
St. Agatha, January 27, 1901
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of
Verdi include the following operas:
- Rigoletto
La Traviata
Don Carlos
Aïda
Otello
Falstaff
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