Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the popular genius behind Rigoletto, Aida and La Traviata, continues to enthrall audiences with his daring music and stories of love and death Of his Requiem, his wife Giuseppina wrote: "Posterity will place it, with wings outspread, in domination of all the music of mourning ever conceived by the human brain огпжо " His life was as dramatic and passionate as his music As this biography shows, he was always fighting: for Italys freedom and nationhood and for his own artistic freedom against the censors, opera impresarios and the authorities Автор Барбара Меир Barbara Meier.  VIVALDIИздательство: Haus Publishing, 2005 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 1904341055.