Editing Giuseppe Verdi (section)

===Reception===
Although Verdi's operas brought him a popular following, not all contemporary critics approved of his work. The English critic [[Henry Chorley]] allowed in 1846 that "he is the only modern man...having a style—for better or worse", but found all his output unacceptable. "[His] faults [are] grave ones, calculated to destroy and degrade taste beyond those of any Italian composer in the long list" wrote Chorley, whilst conceding that "howsoever incomplete may have been his training, howsoever mistaken his aspirations may have proved...he ''has'' aspired."{{sfn|Chorley|1972|pp=182, 185–186}} But by the time of Verdi's death, 55 years later, his reputation was assured, and the 1910 edition of [[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians#Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians |''Grove's Dictionary'']] pronounced him "one of the greatest and most popular opera composers of the nineteenth century".{{sfn|Mazzucato|1910|p=247}}

Verdi had no pupils apart from Muzio and no school of composers sought to follow his style. By his death, ''[[Verismo (music)|verismo]]'' was the accepted style of young Italian composers.{{sfn|Parker|2001|loc=§10 (ii)}} The [[New York Metropolitan Opera]] frequently staged ''Rigoletto, Trovatore'' and ''Traviata'' during this period and featured ''Aida'' in every season from 1898 to 1945. Interest in the operas reawakened in mid-1920s Germany and this sparked a revival in England and elsewhere. From the 1930s onward there began to appear scholarly biographies and publications of documentation and correspondence.{{sfn|Harwood|2004|p=272}}

In 1959 the Instituto di Studi Verdiani (from 1989 the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani) was founded in Parma and became a leading centre for research and publication of Verdi studies,<ref>[http://www.studiverdiani.it/presentazione_en.html "Who we are"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425231316/http://www.studiverdiani.it/presentazione_en.html |date=25 April 2016 }} website of the Istituto di studi verdiani, accessed 27 June 2015.</ref> and in the 1970s the American Institute for Verdi Studies was founded at [[New York University]].<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/projects/verdi/ "American Institute for Verdi Studies"] at NYU website, accessed 27 June 2015.</ref>{{sfn|Harwood|2004|p=273}}