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Six romances under the sign of the elegy

Verdi is one of those composers who are confused with a genre like Chopin and Liszt identify the piano, Verdi, like his contemporary Wagner, does that one with the opera. However, musicologists and experts tell us that the composer also wrote, in an extremely marginal compared to the rest of his work, a few instrumental works (including a string quartet), and a small thirty melodies with piano . Admittedly, these are like operas, vocal music, reflecting almost exclusive interest of the composer's voice, for singing, but while the engineering Verde is primarily and essentially a dramatic genius, we find here a more intimate Verdi, Verdi a room - or rather lounge.

The first book of Sei Romanze [Six Romances], published in 1838, is the first published work of the young Verdi, who was then twenty-five years and tries, at first unsuccessfully, to represent his first opera, Rocester composed in 1836 to become Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio. Certainly, this collection is not a cycle in the sense that one can hear in Schubert or Schumann: indeed, there no dramatic or narrative thread tying together the various parts that make up, he nevertheless, however, they derive their unity of a community of inspiration elegiac, far from the dramatic contrasts that would could expect from the future composer of operas. In this elegiac inspiration manifests the influence of the bel canto style embodied by Bellini, Donizetti, or by Rossini, not only through the shape of the melody together, but also through more or less accurate memories of their works while beginning to emerge as Verde, several passages foreshadowing even some opera tunes to come.

The melodies of Verdi appear both as a synthesis of bel canto romance that preceded it and as a laboratory experiment, in which the composer is testing, trying, experiencing many processes voice, so technically that expression: he remains, in his operas, to create a dramatic movement to give full meaning, all their strength, that is to say their whole life to the scenes that can be presented in the melodies that form tables. In short, it will be for the composer, backstage pass to the theater itself.