Epistolario III, 1902-1904
Edizione Nazionale Delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini
890 lettres (dont plus de 370 sont publiées pour la première fois) nous permettent de suivre la vie de Puccini sur une période de trois ans. Ce sont des années difficiles, au cours desquelles le compositeur subit un grave accident de voiture, la fin de sa relation avec sa maîtresse Corinna et l'échec de Madame Butterfly lors de sa première à la Scala. Après le retrait rapide de la partition de l'opéra raté et l'annulation de la première romaine prévue, la recherche laborieuse de thèmes pour un nouvel opéra a commencé. Le style reste varié et agréable à lire.
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L'auteur
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. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Éditeur
Francesco Cesari
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Éditeur
Matteo Guiggioli
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