Giuseppe Verdi

Italy, 1839–1901

Italian opera composer. Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida and Otello combine melodic writing with a directness of dramatic characterisation that shaped Italian opera for a century.

MusicRoots documents 3 artists who influenced Giuseppe Verdi and 0 artists Giuseppe Verdi influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced Giuseppe Verdi?

• Gioachino Rossini — Verdi grew up inside the Rossinian operatic tradition and organised the national Requiem for Rossini's death in 1868.
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Verdi kept Beethoven's quartets at his bedside and named him among the masters he studied throughout his life.
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Verdi called Palestrina the true father of Italian music and prescribed him, with Bach, as the daily bread of composers.