Composizioni per orchestra
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, II/1
As the second volume of the "Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini," a critical new edition of his compositions for orchestra has been published in the series "Musical Works." In addition to the familiar Preludio a orchestra (SC 1), Preludio sinfonico (SC 32), Trio in Fa (SC 52) and Capriccio sinfonico (SC 55), the volume contains a short but unknown Adagetto (SC 51), probably a sketch of a composition from Puccini's student years in Milan. And, for the first time ever, it also includes an orchestral version of the Scherzo in La (SC 34) from 1882, a work which was just recently discovered. The Scherzo, known until now only in a version for string quartet, complements the Trio in Fa, which is scored for the same orchestral forces, to form an independent movement.
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Composer
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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Editor
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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Editor
Michele Girardi
| 1954
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Virgilio Bernardoni
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Marcus Strümpe, Musik & Kirche, März/April 2019
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