212 years ago today, October 10, 1813 (September 17, 1813 in the lunar calendar), the Italian composer Verdi was born. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Guseppe Verdi was an outstanding Italian opera composer. He wrote 27 operas in his life, some of which have been included in the world's famous operas and performed in countries around the world. He is known as the king of opera. Verdi was born on October 10, 1813 in a small village called Roncolai on the outskirts of Butose in the Duchy of Parma in northern Italy. His father, Carlo, owned a small country inn. When Verdi first heard the sound of an organ in a church when he was 7 years old, he fell in love with music. However, he did not have a good environment to learn music. He just found an old piano by his father and asked the church organist to teach him how to practice it. In 1832, he applied to the Milan Conservatory of Music, but the dean refused to accept him on the pretext that Verdi was not suitable for training. Verdi was not discouraged by this. He continued to study with vocal teacher and composer Raveni, and soon mastered the basic skills of composing music. In 1838, he composed his first opera,"Count of Oberto of San Bonifacho", which premiered on November 17 of the following year. He became famous for his third opera, Nabuco. A chorus in the play,"Flying, Thought, on Golden Wings", was sung by the public and became a war song symbolizing the resistance to Austrian rule and oppression at that time. After the performance, slogans reading "Viva Verdi" appeared in Milan. During the revolutionary period of 1848, Verdi accepted the commission of Mazzini, the leader of the Democratic Republic, to write the patriotic battle song "Blow the Horn" using the lyrics of the patriotic poet G. Mamelli. The creative line of patriotic heroism is not only concentrated in Wildi's early opera creation, but also runs through his mature opera creation. His large-scale opera "Sicilian Vespers" in 1855 and "Don Carlos" in 1867 are the continuation of this line. Verdi's patriotic hero opera had a huge social role, and his name was even considered a symbol of Italian unity. When the opera "Masquerade" was banned by Naples prosecutors in 1858, local citizens shouted "Long live Verdi" and demonstrated in front of the hotel where he lived. The 1950s and 1970s were the mature stage of Verdi's opera creation. His representative works during this period included: "The Jetto" in 1851,"The Troubler" and "La Traviata" in 1853, and "Aida" in 1871. The successive release of these operas made Verdi a household name in Italy as a well-known opera composer. "La Traviata" is a world-famous musical masterpiece. With its profound theme and touching melody, it has excited the hearts of countless people in future generations. But at that time, the public performance of "La Traviata" was treated coldly by the audience because the heroine in the play was an image that was insulted and damaged. At that time, Verdi was the first composer who dared to write this theme into an opera. This opera has since been listed as one of the world's famous works. Gussebi Verdi's last masterpieces were "Othello" and "Falstaff". In his later years, he returned to Sant 'Agata near his hometown of Roncole, where he invested in agricultural production with the remuneration from composing operas and built "shelters" for poor old musicians in Rome. On January 27, 1901, Gusebi Verdi died suddenly due to cerebral hemorrhage. Hundreds of thousands of Milan citizens sang "Fly, Think, Ride on Golden Wings" to join his funeral procession. Note: The difference between the British composer Giuseppe Verdi and the Italian composer Gusepe Verdi should be noted.