The National Giuseppe Verdi Museum () is a music museum in
Busseto
Busseto ( Bussetano: ; Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy with about inhabitants. Its history is quite well documented back to the 10th century, and for almost five hundred years it was the ...
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Province of Parma
The province of Parma () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Parma.
It is made up of 47 ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It has an area of and a total population of aro ...
, Italy.
It is dedicated to
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...
and is housed at the
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
Villa Pallavicino.
The museum was inaugurated on 10 October 2009 on the 196th anniversary of Verdi's birth in Busseto.
The museum follows the historical path of the works of Verdi and has arranged 27 exhibition spaces based on the 27 works of the composer.
See also
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Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi (the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre) is a small opera house located in a wing of the Rocca dei Marchesi Pallavicino on the Piazza Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Italy, a town closely associated with the life of the opera composer, Giusepp ...
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Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi is the estate house that composer Giuseppe Verdi ordered built in 1848 on farmland he had owned for four years and where he lived from that year until the end of his life. It is in the village of Sant'Agata (Villanova sull'Arda), Sant' ...
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Music museums in Italy
Opera museums
Giuseppe Verdi
Biographical museums in Italy
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