Biography Project 2014

By: Jenna B.

Drawn By Jenna Bourgeois

Introduction

     Giuseppe Verdi was a very amazing man. He was talented in many different ways.  In some ways, he is a part of the history of music.

Quotes from Verdi

     "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."

    "You may have the universe if I may have Italy."

    "It is better to invert reality than to copy it."

    “"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.”"

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.

Giuseppe Verdi


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