2. Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi was born in Parma, Italy on October
9, 1813.
He studied in Busseto and later went to
Milan where his first opera “Oberto” was
performed in La Scala, the most
important opera house at the time.
His famous works are La Traviata,
Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello and Aida were
he wrote for the opening of the Suez
Canal.
Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a
Verdi opera.
He died in Milan, Italy on January
27,1901.
3.
4. Giacomo
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini was born in a
poor family on December 22, 1858
in Lucca, Italy.
He studied at the Milan
Conservatory.
He belonged to a group of
composers who stressed realism,
therefore, he drew material from
everyday life, rejecting heroic
themes from mythology and
history.
Puccini’s famous operas were: “La
Boheme”, “Tosca”, “Madame
Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.
5.
6. Franz Peter
Schubert
Schubert was born on the 31st of January
1797 in Himmelpfortgrund,Austria
The proper name for Franz Schubert songs
is lieder, which is the German word for
song.
He is considered the last of the classical
composers and one of the first romantic
ones.
His famous vocal music works/ Lieder
were: “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, “Erlkonig”,
“Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave Maria”) and
“Schwanenge sang” (“Swan Song”).
He also wrote piano pieces, string quartets,
operetta and the Symphony No.8 in B
minor (“UnfinishedSymphony”)
He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at 31.
7.
8. Wilhelm Richard
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born
in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813.
He was very much inspired by
Ludwig vanBeethoven.
Wagner introduced new ideas in
harmony and in form, including
extremes of chromaticism.
He was an advocate of a new form of
opera which he called “music
drama” where musical and dramatic
elements were fused together.
His famous works are; “Tristan and
Isolde”, “Die Walkyrie”, “Die
Meistersinger”, “Tannhäuser”, and
“Parsifal”
9.
10. Georges Bizet
registered with the legal
name Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold Bizet, but was
baptized Georges Bizet
He was born October 25, 1838
in Paris, France.
Bizet became famous for his
operas.
His most famous opera is
“Carmen”.
Bizet died (June 3, 1875). He
was only36.
