October 10 - Giuseppe Verdi (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 10th are here: Giuseppe Verdi; Vernon Duke; Evgeny Kissin; Thelonious Monk (2019), Giuseppe Verdi (2020), and Willi Apel (2021) 

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Giuseppe Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was the most important composer of Italian opera in the mid-nineteenth century.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The War of 1813

Herr Wagner arose and declared he

Would always resent what he shared; he

Considered with scorn

That the year he was born

Was the same as that sham, Signor Verdi.

 

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Otello

Having made the mistake of his life

When he strangled his innocent his wife,

Otello, less macho,

Implored for “un bacio,”

Then skewered himself with his knife.

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Falstaff

Old Falstaff was pleasant and portly,

In seduction his manners were courtly,

But comeuppance arrives

From the two merry wives,

And the final fugue follows up shortly.

 

 

 

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