Note 127 — Chapter XIII · VERDI AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

For the sake of completeness we may mention here as the chronologically appropriate place Verdi’s L’Inno delle Nazione, written for the London International Exhibition of 1862 as part of an international musical patch-work in which Auber, Meyerbeer, and Sterndale Bennett also participated. L’Inno delle Nazione may be forgotten without damage to Verdi’s reputation.