An exhibition “Music for all times” devoted to the 200th birth anniversary of great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) runs in the Music and audio materials reading room (room 305) from 8 October to 10 November.
He went down in the history of culture as one of the greatest geniuses of musical art. No opera composer of the Western Europe had ever achieved such a fast and universal recognition.
Giuseppe Verdi’s creative activity is indissolubly connected with political and cultural life of Italy in the 19th century. An ardent patriot, he sang of freedom and independence of the nation, glorified the heroism of fighters against tyranny and ruthlessly blamed the violence. His music embodying high and noble features of human character reflected the ideals of the Italian liberation movement.
Author of 26 operas and a number of other works, Giuseppe Verdi had passed an extremely long creative way. More than half a century separates his first opera Oberto, Count of San Boniface (1833–1837) from the last one Falstaff (1892), and almost 70 years are between his earliest (1828) and latest (1897) works which actually belong to different epochs.
Many operas that make the basis of the composer’s musical heritage are part of the world musical treasure box: Nabucco (1841), Traviata(1853), Aida (1870), Othello (1886), Falstaff (1892) etc.
The composer also worked in genres of religious music – Requiem for 4 soloists, chorus and orchestra (1874), instrumental – a string quartet (1873) and chamber and vocal music – over 10 romances.
The offered exhibition presents music editions, vinyl disks, CDs and audio-cassettes with the records of Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani (1844), Atilla (1846), Rigoletto (1851), Troubadour (1853), Ball Masquerade (1859), Don Carlo (1867) etc.
Collections of printed music of the 19th century published in the composer’s lifetime are also on display. Visitors of the exhibition will have an opportunity to listen to Giuseppe Verdi’s music in the interpretation of conductors Arturo Toscanini, Herbert Von Karajan, Carlo Cecci, Claudio Abbado and Alexander Melik-Pashaev. Musical compositions are preformed by Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Monserrat Caballe, Placido Domingo, Tito Gobbi, Beniamino Gigli, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Irina Arkhipova, Leonid Smetannikov etc.
The exposition also includes books and journal articles about Giuseppe Verdi’s life and creative career.
Contact phone number: (375 17) 293 27 52.
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