Emanuele Muzio [SEP] place of death
Emanuele Muzio
Donnino Emanuele Muzio (or "Mussio") (24 August 1821 in Zibello – 27 November 1890 in Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor and vocal teacher. He was a lifelong friend and the only student of Giuseppe Verdi.
Biography.
In April 1844, Verdi took on Muzio, eight years his junior, as a pupil and amanuensis. He had known him since about 1828 as a protégé of his own supporter, . Muzio, who in fact was Verdi's only pupil, became
permission, Verdi was skeptical that it would be a success:"It will be a fiasco, as all my works are, when they are first performed in Milan". The first American performance took place on 28 April 1874 at the Academy of Music in New York, conducted by Emanuele Muzio (a long-time assistant of Verdi's), with Christina Nilsson as the soloist.
Some of the 20th-century performances of "Inno delle nazioni" were for propaganda purposes. Arturo Toscanini conducted it on 25 July 1915 in