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What sacred work did Giuseppe Verdi compose after the death of Alessandro Manzoni?
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Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was known for operas such as Rigoletto (1851).
Following the death of the Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni in 1873, Giuseppe Verdi composed his Requiem in his honor.12
Intended as a memorial to a departed hero, the work is Verdi’s largest-scale nonoperatic composition. It premiered in Milan on May 22, 1874, the first anniversary of Manzoni's death, with Verdi conducting the performance at San Marco. For this piece, Verdi incorporated the "Libera me" movement he had originally written for an earlier, abandoned project intended to honor Gioachino Rossini.12