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Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (Janu – Janu) was an American biographer and writer on www.doorway.ru is mainly known for her biography of Giuseppe Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in by Oxford University www.doorway.ru in Lebanon, Ohio and educated at Smith College and Columbia University, she lived for many years in Italy, and even after her return to the. Now, in Verdi: A Biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz brings us the result of more than thirty years' research on the life of this colossus of Italy. Drawing on numerous original documents provided by Verdi's descendants, the Carrara-Verdi family, this long awaited biography presents a reexamination of Verdi's life not only as a composer, but as a philanthropist and son of Italy/5(26). · Viva Verdi is the opera lover's response to this magisterial work by Phillips-Matz. Her years of research has produced a detailed life of Verd. The author traces the family lineage of Verdi in Bussetto, chronicles the genesis of his operatic masterpieces and delves into the private life of the greatest Italian opera composer of the nineteenth Reviews:
Verdi: A Biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Author, Andrew Porter, Foreword by Oxford University Press, USA $60 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz is the author of Rosa Ponselle: American Diva, also published by Northeastern University Press, and the highly praised Verdi: A Biography, which won the Royal Philharmonic Prize, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and the New York Governor's Award of Excellence. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz () was an American scholar and writer, noted for her many articles on opera and her biographies of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, as well as her translations of opera libretti for the Metropolitan Opera. The Mary Jane Phillips-Matz collection consists mainly of research files and drafts of.
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, a biographer of Verdi and Puccini whose work sought, and by all accounts found, the flesh-and-blood men behind the music, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Manhattan. She was. Now, in Verdi: A Biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz brings us the result of more than thirty years' research on the life of this colossus of Italy. Drawing on numerous original documents provided by Verdi's descendants, the Carrara-Verdi family, this long awaited biography presents a reexamination of Verdi's life not only as a composer, but as a philanthropist and son of Italy. Verdi: a biography by Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Publication date Topics Verdi, Giuseppe, , Composers -- Italy -- Biography Publisher.