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This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdis music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdis milieu, style, creative process and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdis life, his role in transforming the theater business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdis career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos and Otello synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdis creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdis non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and scholarly writing about Verdi from the nineteenth-century to the present day.

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The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

This Companion provides an accessible biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdis music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composition, and discusses stylistic themes in reviews of representative works. Aspects of Verdis milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdis life, his role in transforming the theatre business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdis career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos , and Otello , synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdis creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdis non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and writing about Verdi from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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The Cambridge Companion to VERDI

Edited by

Scott L. Balthazar

Professor of Music History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Contents

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Alessandro Roccatagliati

Mary Ann Smart

Scott L. Balthazar

Fabrizio Della Seta

Emanuele Senici

Andreas Giger

Steven Huebner

David Kimbell

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Rosa Solinas

Rigoletto Cormac Newark

Harold Powers

Scott L. Balthazar

Luke Jensen

Gregory W. Harwood

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Scott L. Balthazar is Professor of Music History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His articles on nineteenth-century Italian opera and theories of instrumental form in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicological Research , Journal of Musicology , Opera Journal , Cambridge Opera Journal , Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Current Musicology , Opera Quarterly , and Music and Letters .

Fabrizio Della Seta is Professor in the Faculty of Musicology at the University of Pavia in Cremona. He has edited Verdis La traviata (1997), the autograph sketches and drafts for that opera (2000), and Rossinis Adina (2000). He is currently general co-editor of the Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini .

Andreas Giger is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Louisiana State University. His recent studies have focused on Korngold ( Journal of Musicology ), censorship ( Cambridge Opera Journal ), and prosody in Verdis French operas ( Music and Letters ). He co-edited Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the Twenty-First Century and is the founder of the Internet database Saggi musicali italiani .

Gregory W. Harwood is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Music at Georgia Southern University. His volume Giuseppe Verdi: A Guide to Research (1998) has become a standard reference tool in Verdi studies. Other research interests include topics related to Robert and Clara Schumann, Maurice Ravel, and Hector Berlioz.

Steven Huebner is the author of The Operas of Charles Gounod (1990) and French Opera at the Fin de Sicle: Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style (1999), as well as numerous articles on Italian and French opera. He currently holds a James McGill Chair at McGill University in Montreal, where he has taught since 1985.

Luke Jensen is Director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he previously served as Associate Director of the Center for Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music and as Affiliate Faculty in the School of Music. His publications include Giuseppe Verdi and Giovanni Ricordi with Notes on Francesco Lucca: From Oberto to La traviata (1989) and a five-volume guide to the Gazzetta musicale di Milano for the series Rpertoire international de la presse musicale (2000).

David Kimbell is Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Music from 1995 to 2001. His principal research interests are Italian opera and the music of Handel. His most recent publication was the completion, with Roger Savage, of The Classics of Music , Michael Tilmouths edition of the previously uncollected writings of Donald Francis Tovey (2001).

Roberta Montemorra Marvin is Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. She is editor of Verdis I masnadieri (2000) and his Secular Cantatas (forthcoming), co-editor of Verdi 2001: Atti del Convegno internazionale (2003), and editor of Verdi Forum . She has also published widely on Italian opera, including essays in Cambridge Opera Journal, Music and Letters, Studi verdiani , the Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi , the Musical Quarterly , and Verdis Middle Period (Martin Chusid, ed., 1997).

Cormac Newark, having been Research Fellow in Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is now engaged in a two-year program of research in Italy sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. He has published in the Cambridge Opera Journal , the Journal of the Royal Musical Association , and the Guardian , and has contributed to various collections of essays, including Reading Critics Reading (Roger Parker and Mary Ann Smart, eds., 2001) and the Cambridge Companion to Rossini (Emanuele Senici, ed., forthcoming).

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz a Co-Founder and Executive Board member of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University, is the author of Verdi: A Biography (1993), which won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in London and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in New York, both in 1995, and has recently been published in French by Fayard and in Spanish by Paids. Her book Puccini: A Biography appeared in 2002.

Harold Powers has taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (jointly in Music and South Asian Studies), and Princeton University, and has been Visiting Professor at seven American and European universities. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and honorary member of the American Musicological Society. He has published extensively on Indic musicology, Italian opera, and the history of music theory.

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