With his Capriccio sinfonico, SC 55, Giacomo Puccini completed his studies in 1883 at the Milan Conservatory. It is the most extensive of his three orchestral works and also his last. Apart from occasional smaller works, thereafter he dedicated himself only to opera. Nonetheless, the Capriccio sinfonico plays an important role in Puccini’s oeuvre, not only as a source of motives for the operas which followed (for example, the beginning of the fast middle section of Capriccio sinfonico appears almost note-for-note as the instrumental beginning of La Bohème), but also due to the fact that it is his first extensive composition which displays that very specific "Puccini sound" in which he attempted to combine the tradition of Italian bel canto style with Wagner’s treatment of motivic material and handling of the orchestra. This is the first critical edition of the work, included in vol. II/1 of the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini ("Composizioni per orchestra").
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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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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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