May 22, 2013
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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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