VERDI : The Man and His Music (Metropolitan Opera Guild Composer Series)

Hume, Paul

ISBN 10: 0525228454 / ISBN 13: 9780525228455

Published by E. P. Dutton in Association with Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY, 1977

About this Item

Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated gray boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/repaired clean cut to leading front edge. Life and works of Giuseppi (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901) by the late Paul Hume. All twenty-six of Verdi's operas are described including early work Nabucco (1842), with which he established his reputation and expressed his strong support for the nationalistic cause for Italian unity. Fine copy with a less than perfect dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 001456

Bibliographic Details

• Title: VERDI : The Man and His Music (Metropolitan Opera Guild Composer Series)
• Publisher: E. P. Dutton in Association with Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525228454
• ISBN 13: 9780525228455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music, Sheet Music, Music Criticism

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Synopsis

This handsome introduction makes full use of the wealth of resource available to tell the fascinating story of Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the world's best-loved operas and who name was scrawled in defiant graffiti against Italy's Austrian rulers.