The Works of Giuseppe Verdi

FAIN: RQ-50655-12

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Philip Gossett (Project Director: December 2011 to June 2016)
Marta Tonegutti (Co Project Director: February 2014 to June 2016)

Preparation of an edition of the complete works of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). (24 months)

The University of Chicago Press, in cooperation with Casa Ricordi of Milan, has embarked on the first critical edition of the complete works of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). This critical edition, which has already proven invaluable to musical scholarship as well as to the performance of Verdi's music, is projected to take over forty years to complete. The sequence of work has been organized so as to issue the more famous operas in alternation with lesser-known works, to maintain balanced sales as well as heterogeneity. Furthermore, to facilitate editing and production, the largest and most complex works, particularly the double volumes containing several versions, are scheduled between smaller, less demanding volumes. The edition is being prepared under the general editorship of Philip Gossett and an editorial board that includes seven other Verdi scholars.

Associated Products

Attila: Dramma Lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts with Libretto by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave (Book)
Title: Attila: Dramma Lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts with Libretto by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Editor: Helen M. Greenwald
Abstract: In the Works of Giuseppe Verdi, this is volume 9 of Series I: Operas. Published in 2 volumes, this edition of Verdi's 1846 opera Attila includes a critical commentary, facsimiles of the original score, a historical introduction in English and Italian, and a complete set of parts for the opera. The critical edition is based on Verdi’s autograph full score preserved at the British Library. It restores the opera’s original text and accurately reflects the composer’s colorful and elaborate musical setting. Editor Greenwald’s introduction discusses the opera’s origins, sources, and performance questions. The critical commentary details editorial problems and solutions.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/841489702
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo8419852.html
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press and Milan: Casa Ricordi
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226853321
Translator: (for the Historical Introduction only, English to Italian): Marta Tonegutti
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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