abramo

Updated: May 4, 2025

Abramo Basevi, an Italian critic, who wrote a book of studies on Verdi's operas, following the fashion set by Lenz in his book on Beethoven, divides the operas which he had written up to the critic's time into examples of three styles, the early operas marking his first manner and "Luisa Miller" the beginning of his second.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music