Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Verdi, the Composer Is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Verdi, the Composer Is Dead.

A special dispatch to the Rome Patria announces that Verdi, the composer, is dead.o Giuseppe Verdi, the composer, was born Oct. 9, 1814, in the duchy of Parma. He resided in Milan. In 1839 he published his earliest work, a musical drama entitled “Oberto di San Bonifazio.” Some of his best-known operas are “Louisa Miller,” “Rigoletto,” “II Trovatore,” “La Traviata” and “Aida,” which have been successfully produced in Italy, Germany, France, England and America. Among his later works are “Requiem Mass,” “Montezuma,” an opera in five acts; “Otello” and “Falstaff,” the last an opera that was received with great enthusiasm when produced in Milan in 1893.