Oberto achieved modest success and Verdi was offered another commission from La Scala for a comedy. The score also may have been destroyed with the composer’s other juvenilia as Verdi had requested in his will. It is commonly believed that much of the music was incorporated into his first staged opera, Oberto. It was never performed, nor does the score appear to exist. After making a few useful contacts in Milan, writing a number of small compositions and some last-minute conducting substitutions, Verdi was offered a contract by La Scala for an opera, Rocester. The Conservatory rejected his application because of his age and uneven piano technique, but Verdi remained in Milan under the tutorship of Vincenzo Livigna, a maestro concertatore at La Scala. Lodging in his benefactor’s home, Verdi gave singing and piano lessons to Barezzi’s daughter, Margherita, who later became the composer’s first wife.Įncouraged by his benefactor, Verdi applied to the Milan Conservatory, his tuition to be funded in part by a scholarship for poor children and the balance to be paid by Barezzi. Carlo Verdi’s contact with Antonio Barezzi, a wealthy merchant and music enthusiast from nearby Busseto, led to Giuseppe’s move to the larger town and to a more formalized music education. By the age of nine he was substituting as organist at the town church, a position he would later assume and hold for a number of years. As a youth Verdi’s natural fascination with music was enhanced by his father’s purchase of an old spinet piano.
Contrary to the composer’s claim that he was of illiterate peasants, Carlo and Luigia Verdi both came from families of landowners and traders – together they ran a tavern and grocery store. Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, a small village in the Duchy of Parma. B Le Roncole, October 9 or 10, 1813 d Milan, January 27, 1901
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