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Frederick James Crowest. Verdi: Man and Musician
Verdi: Man and Musician
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND CHILD-LIFE
CHAPTER II. CLERK, STUDENT, AND PROFESSOR
CHAPTER III. COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND FIRST OPERATIC SUCCESS
CHAPTER IV. SUCCESS AND INTRODUCTION INTO ENGLAND
CHAPTER V. FIRST PERIOD WORKS
CHAPTER VI. RIGOLETTO TO AÏDA—SECOND PERIOD OPERAS
CHAPTER VII. REQUIEM MASS AND OTHER COMPOSITIONS
CHAPTER VIII. THIRD PERIOD OPERAS
CHAPTER IX. POLITICIAN AND CITIZEN
CHAPTER X. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF STYLE
CHAPTER XI. EFFECT UPON AND PLACE IN OPERA
CHAPTER XII. VERDI LITERATURE
INDEX
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Frederick James Crowest
His Biography with Especial Reference to His English Experiences
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The average business man views a predilection for music, or indeed for any art study, as fatal to duty and discipline. Not so Barezzi. He encouraged the musical proclivities of the office-boy, and, as we shall discover, most generously and materially assisted him towards an inevitable artist career. In time he began to regard Verdi as one of his family, and allowed him the use of the pianoforte.
Let us see what happened. Without neglecting his daily duties in the office, young Verdi availed himself of every moment of spare time to add to his musical knowledge and practice. He seldom missed an opportunity of attending the rehearsals held in Barezzi's house, or the public concerts given by the Philharmonic Society under the conductorship of Giovanni Provesi, organist and bandmaster of the duomo of Busseto. In return Verdi copied the instrumental parts for the various performers, working at "string" and "brass" parts with a neatness and accuracy that quite won the hearts of those who had to play therefrom. Some people would declare such copying to be inconceivable drudgery, but young Verdi relished the excellent insight into orchestration which such practice afforded him. Provesi, on his part, was so pleased that he gave the lad some gratuitous instruction, of which Verdi took such advantage that at the end of two or three years the master frankly owned, like Baistrocchi, that the pupil knew as much as he himself did.
