Giuseppe Verdi : his life and works / by Francis Toye.
| Author/creator | Toye, Francis |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962, ©1931. |
| Description | xix, 495 pages : illustrations (music) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I -- Part II. Operas. Oberto, conte di Bonifacio -- Il finto Stanislao -- Nabucodonosor -- I Lombardi alla prima crociata -- Ernani -- I due Foscari -- Giovanna d'Arco -- Alzira -- Attila -- Macbeth -- I Masnadieri -- Il Corsaro -- La Battaglia di Legnano -- Luisa Miller -- Rigoletto -- Il Trovatore -- La Traviata -- I Vespri Siciliani [Les Vepres Siciliennes] -- Simon Boccanegra -- Aroldo -- Un Ballo in Maschera -- La Forza del Destino -- Don Carlo [Carlos] -- Aida -- Otello -- Falstaff -- Ecclesiastical works. A requiem mass -- Ave Maria ; Pater Noster -- Quattro pezzi sacri -- Miscellaneous works. Songs -- Inno delle nazioni -- String Quartet in E minor -- Verdi the musician. |
| Abstract | Francis Toye's 'Verdi', published by Heinemann in 1931, has long been out of print, and copies are eagerly sought after. As all music-lovers are aware, this is the one indispensable book about the composer: if only because it contains a lengthy analysis (libretto and music alike) of every single one of his operas, the most obscure as well as the most famous. Now that even such unknown operas as I Masdanieri, or such rarely heard ones as Simone Boccanegra, are receiving occasional performances, the book becomes even more precious than it has always been: not to mention that, with the vogue for Verdi ever on the increase, hosts of young music-lovers are eager for such descriptions of the masterpieces--Traviata, Otello, Falstaff and the rest--as Toye, and Toye alone, provides. Unnecessary, therefore, to stress the welcome that surely awaits this reissue of the 1931 edition. |
| General note | A re-issue of the 1931 edition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages xiv-xv) and index. |