sources for the operas, alternative titles associated with the operas, a chronol-
ogy, a worklist, and biographical notices on persons connected with the com-
poser. Indexes of authors, editors, translators, and an expansive index of
topics. Regular bibliographic listings in Studi verdiani(#1811) and Verdi
Newsletter(#1812) will serve to update Harwood.- Kämper, Dietrich. “Das deutsche Verdi-Schriftum: Hauptlinien der Interpreta-
tion.” Analecta musicologica11 (1972): 185–197.
Reviews the German writings on Verdi from the earliest notice in 1843. Skepti-
cism prevailed before Hermann Abert. Wagnerian influences are a pervasive
concern (Wagner himself wrote nothing about Verdi).
Conferences
1802.Atti del Io(IIoetc.) Congresso Internazionale di Studi Verdiani... Parma: Isti-
tuto di Studi Verdiani, 1969–. ML36 .C769.
Proceedings for these conferences have been published under the title Atti: 1
(1966, Venice); 2 (1969, Verona, Parma, Busseto) on Don Carlos;3 (1972,
Milan). Descriptions and contents in Harwood (#1800), items 224–226.
1803.Verdi’s Middle Period, 1849–1859: Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance
Practice.Ed. Martin Chusid. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 436p.
ISBN 0-226-10658-6. ML410 .V4 V354.
Papers given at the International Verdi Congress, Belfast, March 1993. Con-
tents in Harwood (#1800), item 235.- “Colloquium Verdi-Wagner, Rome 1969: Bericht.” Ed. Friedrich Lippmann.
Analecta musicologica11 (1972): 1–342.
This issue of the journal presents 19 papers from the conference. Four are cited
separately: Ziino (#1968), Kämper (#1801), Dahlhaus (#2007), and Celletti
(#1845).
Other congress reports are entered under individual operas.
Collections of Essays
- Martin, George. Aspects of Verdi.New York: Dodd, Mead, 1988. xiv, 304p.
ISBN 0-396-08843-0. ML410 .V4 M264.
A valuable collection of Martin’s essays, including some revisions of material
published previously. Contents in Harwood (#1800), item 244.
1806.The Verdi Companion.Ed. William Weaver and Martin Chusid. New York:
Norton, 1979. 366p. ISBN 0-393-01215-8. Reprint, London: Gollancz, 1980.
ML410 .V4 V295.
Essays (some previously published) by various scholars on Verdi and politics,
Verdi and his impresarios and publishers, his librettists, his treatment of the
voice, and his obscure contemporaries. The most useful contribution is the
selective bibliography by Andrew Porter: a critical inventory that is truly criti-
cal. There is also a long chronology of Verdi, p.255–324. Further contents in
Harwood (#1800), item 248.
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