Giacomo Puccini

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Youth
breakthrough
the years of gold
beyond "Butterfly"
Puccin's wars
the last years.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is perhaps the world's most popular composer of operas. Works such as La Bohème and Madame Butterfly have a universal appeal and are an essential part of the repetoire of every major opera house. He is renowned above all for his gift as a melodist, but he was also a new force in musical drama, and posessed a tremendous sense of theatre. The author draws attention to the felicity, daring and extraordinary colouring of Puccini's music, and counters the view that he was a retrogressive who through his choice of harrowing subject matter aimed to shock. This is a polemic, passionate and rational attempt to set the man from Lucca among the immortal greats.

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Thoroughly readable and quietly perceptive

Fascinating and fastidiously researched. A fine book, both emotionally profound and waspishly witty

As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical

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