Verdi and the French Aesthetic

Andreas Giger is Associate Professor of Music at Louisiana State University. His research interests have concentrated on nineteenth-century Italian opera and the work of Leonard Bernstein. He is the author of Verismo (2004) in the Handwrterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie and articles in many books and journals, including the Cambridge Companion to Verdi, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is also co-editor of Music in the Mirror (2002) and founder of the Internet database saggi musicali italiani.Giger, Andreas is the author of 'Verdi and the French Aesthetic', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521878432 and ISBN 0521878438.