Epistolario II, 1897-1901
Edizione Nazionale Delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini
The five years described in the 863 letters (of which 296 previously unpublished) that appear in this publication paint the picture of a very intense time in the life of Puccini, when he consolidated his professional standing and expanded his connections. In this period he completed Tosca and started working on Madama Butterfly, launched other projects that he later abandoned, travelled across Italy and Europe to attend the staging of his operas. The multiplicity of topics is also reflected in a style that is varied and undoubtedly interesting.
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Giacomo Puccini
| 1858-1924Giacomo Puccini came from a dynasty of church musicians who worked in the Tuscan city of Lucca. His Messa a 4 con orchestra, premiered there in 1880, seemed to point him toward a career in the same direction, but directly after this, he went to Milan Conservatoire with the aim of becoming an opera composer. His only independent orchestral works were written there as student works – the Preludio sinfonico (1882) and Capriccio sinfonico (1883), as well as some of his 16 complete surviving songs for voice and piano (Canti), which he composed, with frequent references to his operas, almost throughout his career. He achieved a breakthrough as an opera composer with Manon Lescaut (1893); between 1893 and 1904 he composed La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, which remain his most frequently-performed works today. In recent years there has been a growing realisation that Puccini's entire output requires reappraisal. And so, he has increasingly come to be understood as a musician searching for a way forward into the modern age. Personal details
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Gabriella Biagi Ravenni
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Dieter Schickling
| 1939-2023Nach dem Studium der Germanistik,Anglistik und Philosophie und der Promotion in Germanistik war Dieter Schickling hauptsächlich für das Fernsehen des Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart tätig, zuletzt als Leiter der Hauptabteilung Bildung, Spiel, Unterhaltung. Seine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Musik führte zu langjähriger Forschung über Puccini,die in verschiedene Publikationen mündete, u.a. das erste umfassende Werkverzeichnis Puccinis, 2003. Personal details
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