User Guide
dCS La Scala User Manual Manual for Software Issue 1.0x
dCS Ltd September 2004
Manual filename: Verdi LS Manual v1.0x.doc Page 5 email: more@dcsltd.co.uk
English version web-site: www.dcsltd.co.uk
He continued to compose, albeit at a slower pace. In 1873 he wrote his
Requiem Mass, which was dedicated to the memory of the poet Alessandro
Manzoni, though its origins go back to a work he first composed as a homage to
Rossini.
The most notable operas of his latter years are: Aida – written in 1871, Otello
- written in 1887 and Falstaff - written in 1893. The last two were based on
plays by Shakespeare and are widely regarded as masterpieces. His last major
work, the Four Sacred Pieces (Ave Maria, Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Laudi
alla Vergine), was written in 1898, a year after the death of his second wife
Giuseppina.
Giuseppe Verdi died on January 27
th
1901. In accordance with his wishes, he
was given a simple funeral, without singing or music. The following month, he
was entombed in a state ceremony with his second wife, at the rest home for
musicians that he had helped to set up many years before, to care for singers
and instrumentalists who had fallen on hard times in their old age. The
procession was accompanied by members of Verdi’s family, members of the
Italian Royal family, members of Parliament, foreign diplomats and leading
composers including Puccini, Mascagni and Leoncavello. Arturo Toscanini lead
tens of thousands of mourners with the choruses of La Scala, in the singing of
Va, pensiero from Nabucco.
Recommended recordings x
Requiem
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
Sony SACD SS00707
Rigoletto
English National Opera
CHAN 3030
Otello
English National Opera conducted by Mark Elder
CHAN 3068(2)
Otello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir George Solti
London 422 670-2
Il Trovatore
Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan
EMI CMS7 69311/2
La Traviata
e Coro del Maggio Musicale, Florence conducted by Zubin Meta
Philips 438 238-2
Macbeth
Choir and Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin conducted by Giuseppe
Sinopoli
Philips 412 133-2
Four Sacred Pieces and Requiem
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by
John Eliot Gardener
Philips 442 142-2