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Article: Death of Giuseppe Verdi.(January, 1901)(Brief Article)
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- January 1, 2001
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January 27th, 1901
THE LAST ACT of which the composer of Aida and Don Carlos, Rigoletto and Otello seems to have been conscious was buttoning up his waistcoat. Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last New Year in the comfort of his suite at the Grand Hotel in Milan. Eighty-seven-years-old, he was in vigorous health, though he would sometimes wonder aloud why he was still in this world. He could no longer take the long walks he loved, though a late photograph caught him in his black overcoat and top hat one day, long-sightedly scanning a newspaper as he walked past La Scala. His librettist and old friend Arrigo Boito wrote that `we were all ...
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