The AASO and Verdi's Requiem

Death, then nothing

by James Leonard

posted 9/1/2006

Why did Giuseppe Verdi hate the Catholic Church? There were two reasons, one political, the other personal. First, the church opposed Italian unity, the political cause Verdi fought for all his life. Second, its consolations failed him when, within months of each other, his young wife and infant son and daughter died.

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