Although soldiers and statesmen played a key role in what unfolded, Giuseppe Verdi’s music provided the soundtrack to the desire for independence. Through his many works, Verdi reflected ...

The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.

Verdi persevered in his ambitions by taking private lessons. After his studies with one Vincenzo Lavigna, from whom he acquired a thorough mastery of counter point, fugue and canon, Verdi applied for ...

If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, opera patrons are rewarded with his aria.

GCSE Music Revision: Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 Movement 1 AQA Symphony No. 1 Movement 1 is a classical ... Verdi: Requiem - AQA The Dies Irae was written by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi ...

Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and a symbol of Italian unification, tried to give up music when he composed Nabuco, an opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned ...

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim If you are at all familiar with “The Four Seasons” by Verdi, chances are you’re a ballet person. It was Jerome Robbins who in 1979 took this incidental music ...