VERDI, GIUSEPPE

Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco Verdi was a composer whose genius was evident in his perseverance as well as in his writing. He was born in 1813 in Roncole, Italy, a village southeast of Busseto (between Milan and Bologna ). His father was a tavernkeeper who recognized his son’s unusual musical ability when he was very young and allowed him to begin music lessons at age three with the village organist Don. Pietro Baistrocchi . By the age of eleven he was studying counterpoint...