![]() ![]() To add tragedy to insult, Verdi lost his wife and two young children to illness within the same year, and the despondent composer resolved to give up music altogether. However, his next opera, the comedy Un Giorno di Regno (King for a Day), was a complete failure. His first successful opera, Oberto, opened at La Scala in 1839. During the mid 1830s, he attended the Salotto Maffei salonsin Milan, hosted by Clara Maffei. He took private lessons in counterpoint while attending operatic performances, as well as concerts of, specifically, German music. Milan’s beaumonde association convinced him that he should pursue a career as a theatre composer. ![]() Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies. When he was still a child, Verdi’s parents moved from Piacenza to Busseto, where the future composer’s education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school. Also in Busseto, Verdi was given his first lessons in composition.ĭisplaying considerable talent from a very early age, he was assistant organist at the small local church by the time he was ten. In 1829, at the age of 13, he was an assistant conductor of the Busseto orchestra and an organist at the town church. In 1836, Verdi married Margherita Barezzi, the daughter of his benefactor, Antonio Barezzi. The great Italian composer Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in La Roncole on October 10, 1813. ![]()
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