Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdiwas an Italian opera composer...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth10 October 1813
CountryItaly
adore alone emotion heart joys pounds stream tears
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
clearly cost hired impossible large operas organs pay price work
They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired the organs from their owners. It will cost me about 1,500 lire for the summer, but that is not too large a price to pay for peace.
adore alone emotion heart joys pounds stream tears
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
conductors imagine wrote
Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one?
inspiration artist blood
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.
song order funeral
I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
son envy bosoms
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
singers said deny
I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
feel-better artist yield
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.
blessed affair peasants
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
mistake writing two
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.
mean past composer
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
writing men verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
stupid criticism praise
Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.