Mary jane phillips matz verdi a biography

          This long awaited biography presents a reexamination of Verdi's life not only as a composer, but as a philanthropist and son of Italy....

          Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

          American biographer, essayist and musicologist (1926–2013)

          Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (January 30, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American biographer and writer on opera.

          She is mainly known for her biography of Giuseppe Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in 1992 by Oxford University Press.

          The first major biography of Verdi for a generation, this is a fitting study of a great composer and a great patriot of Italian nationalism.

        1. The first major biography of Verdi for a generation, this is a fitting study of a great composer and a great patriot of Italian nationalism.
        2. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz was an American biographer and writer on opera.
        3. This long awaited biography presents a reexamination of Verdi's life not only as a composer, but as a philanthropist and son of Italy.
        4. Verdi: A Biography.
        5. Ms.

          6. Born 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 United States in the early 1970s spent her summers in Verdi's hometown of Busseto where she continued her exhaustive research into his life.

          She died in New York City at the age of 86

          Biography

          Mary Jane Phillips was born in Lebanon, Ohio to William Mason Phillips and Hazel Spencer Phillips. Her mother was the author of several books on Ohio history and folklore.[1] She grew up in Dayton and acquired her interest in opera as a child from family excursions to the Cincinnati Zoo where the price of