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Giuseppe Verdi was born in a middle-class family on the 9th or 10th (it isn´t sure) of october in 1813 in Lombardy, a location in Italy.
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He studied composition when he was in the Secondary school. He was rejected from the Milan Conservatory because he failed the examination and the music theory was too old and his piano technique was unorthodox. So he studied composition privately.
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He was married to Margherita Barezzi from 1836 to 1840. Marghetrita died while he was composing one of his operas.
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His operas started to be better, till become a better composer. His debut opera was in 1838 and it was called Oberto, Conte di Bonifacio.
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He had two children: a girl, Virginia Maria Luigia Verdi, and a boy, Icilio Romano Verdi, who both died young.
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Then he married Giuseppina Strepponi from 1859 to 1897.
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His operas were so exciting and inspired such national feeling that, when Italy shook off from Austria and became a united country, he was given a lot of credit and he was even rewarded with a senate seat and a membership in the parliament.
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He kept writing till he was old and some of his most famous operas came in his seventies. Some of them are “Otello” and “Falstaff”. As he loved Shakespeare´s plays, he turned several of them into operas.
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He made a lot of compositions like Aida, Rigoletto, Nabucco... but his best known opera is “La Traviata”.
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Finally, he died on the 27th of January in 1901 at the age of 88.
