Second printing.
Fifty eye-witness accounts of encounters with Verdi by his contemporaries, including composers, musicians, literati, critics and journalists.
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Marcello Conati. Translated by Richard Stokes with a Foreword by Julian Budden. Very good .
Keywords: MUSIC; COMPOSERS; OPERA; ITALIAN; GIUSEPPE VERDI; ENCOUNTERS WITH VERDI; MARCELLO CONATI; TRANSLATOR; RICHARD STOKES; JULIAN BUDDEN; ILLUSTRATIONS.