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Giuseppe Verdi was born on the 10th of October 1813 in Roncole of Busseto, Parma. Since Giuseppe was a young boy, he showed a lot of talent when it came it to music. When Giuseppe was 12, he worked for a shopkeeper in Busseto. There, he studied music with Ferdinando Provesi. In 1835, he married the shopkeeper's daughter,Margherita Barezzi. She died, along with her two children, sometime between 1838 and 1840. The first opera Giuseppe wrote was called Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio , written in 1839. It was first performed at Scala Theatre on November 17th, 1839 with moderate success. His next play, Un Giorno Di Regno, was a failure. It was his first comedy, which was ironically written shortly after the death of his wife and children, whom

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