Verdi’s Rigoletto #246307

Verdi's next conflict with the powers that be occurred after the death of Ferdinando Provesi, organist at Busseto Cathedral. Provesi, who formerly had been Verdi's instructor, was a man of some power, and it had been understood that his young pupil was to succeed to his post. Indeed, it was on this under standing that the local Moute di Pieui had given Verdi the necessary money for the furtherance of his studies at Milan.