Джузеппе Верди цитаты
Джузеппе Верди
Дата рождения: 10. Октябрь 1813
Дата смерти: 27. Январь 1901
Джузе́ппе Фортуни́но Франче́ско Ве́рди — итальянский композитор, творчество которого является одним из крупнейших достижений мирового оперного искусства и кульминацией развития итальянской оперы XIX века.
Композитором созданы 26 опер и один реквием. Лучшие оперы композитора: «Бал-маскарад», «Риголетто», «Трубадур», «Травиата». Вершина творчества — последние оперы: «Аида», «Отелло», «Фальстаф».
Подобные авторы
Руджеро Леонкавалло1
итальянский композитор
Джакомо Пуччини
итальянский композитор
Никколо Паганини6
итальянский скрипач и гитарист-виртуоз, композитор
Джанкарло Менотти
итальянский композитор и либреттист
Джоаккино Россини
итальянский композиторЦитаты Джузеппе Верди
„You may have the universe if I may have Italy.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
This is from Verdi's Attila, Prologue, sc. 1, but the words are by Verdi's librettist Temistocle Solera; translation from Michael A. Musmanno The Story of the Italians in America (New York: Doubleday, 1965) p. 255.
„Really superior artists judge without being prejudiced by school, nationality or period. If the artists of north and south exhibit different tendencies, it is good that they are different!“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Hans von Bülow, April 14, 1892, cited from Franco Abbiati Giuseppe Verdi (Milano: Ricordi, 1959) vol. 4, p. 440; translation from Charles Osborne (ed. and trans.) Letters of Giuseppe Verdi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971) p. 249.
„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.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Giulio Ricordi, April 11, 1871, cited from Franco Abbiati Giuseppe Verdi (Milano: Ricordi, 1959) vol. 3, p. 448; translation from Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan (eds.), Edward Downes (trans.) Verdi: The Man in His Letters (New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942) pp. 301-2.
„To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Clara Maffei, October 20, 1876, cited from James P. Cassaro (ed.) Music, Libraries and the Academy (Middleton, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2007) p. 218; translation from the same source.
„Let us turn to the past: that will be progress.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Francesco Florimo, January 5, 1871, cited from Francesco Florimo Riccardo Wagner ed i wagneristi (Ancona: A. G. Morelli, 1883) p. 108; translation from Charles Osborne (ed. and trans.) Letters of Giuseppe Verdi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971) p. 169.
„If we let fashion, love of innovation, and an alleged scientific spirit tempt us to surrender the native quality of our own art, the free natural certainty of our work and perception, our bright golden light, then we are simply being stupid and senseless.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Clarina Maffei, April 20, 1878, cited from Franco Abbiati Giuseppe Verdi (Milano: Ricordi, 1959) vol. 4, p. 79; translation from Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan (eds.), Edward Downes (trans.) Verdi: The Man in His Letters (New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942) p. 345.
„I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own.“
— Giuseppe Verdi
Letter to Opprandino Arrivabene, July 14, 1875, cited from Julian Budden Le opere di Verdi (Torino: E.D.T., 1986) vol. 2, p. 60; translation from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997) p. 126
