Margherita barezzi biography for kids

In The Man Verdi, Frank Walker describes Giuseppe Verdi&#;s birthplace as &#;the merest hamlet&#;.

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Born in Le Roncole on October 10, , Giuseppe Verdi was the son of an inn-­keeper in a land of peasantry.

At age ten, he began attending school in the larger town of Busseto and boarding with a friend of his father&#;s, a cobbler.

On Sundays and feast days, he would trek back to Le Roncole to play the organ for services.

It was a three mile journey each way and, according to his second wife (Giuseppina Strepponi), he would often walk barefoot, carrying his shoes to preserve the leather.

During his time in Busseto, Verdi began serious musical study under Ferdinando Provesi, a well­-respected figure in town.

News of Verdi&#;s talent reached the ears of Antonio Barezzi. Barezzi owned a popular store on the main street of town.

According to Walker, &#;There he sold wine, groceries and liqueurs of his own distillation.&#; Barezzi was an enthusiastic music lover -­ a &#;maniac