Historical Figures Codexery

Giacomo Puccini

Italian composer of La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot.

After Verdi, he is considered the foremost and most accomplished figure in Italian opera, and his lineage includes many composers reaching back to the late Baroque period.[1] Puccini came from a family line of composers that started in the late Baroque era.[1]

Quick Facts

Born
22 December 1858
Birthplace
Lucca, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died
29 November 1924
Place of death
Brussels, Belgium
Spouse
Elvira Gemignani (1904)

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Born in Lucca in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1858, he was the sixth of nine children of Michele Puccini and Albina Magi.[2] In 1880 he achieved a diploma from Lucca's Pacini School of Music.[3] A grant from Queen Margherita and assistance from an uncle provided funds for him to study at the Milan Conservatory for three years.[3] His next work after Manon Lescaut was La bohème, a four-act opera based on Henri Murger's La Vie de Bohème.[4]

Puccini's final opera, Turandot, was left unfinished at the composer's death in November 1924.[5] Puccini died on 29 November 1924.[6] Puccini's great-great-grandfather, also named Giacomo (1712–1781), founded the family's musical dynasty in Lucca.[2] For his final project at the Milan Conservatory, Puccini wrote the orchestral piece Capriccio sinfonico.[7]

On 2 February 1893, Manon Lescaut, Puccini's first opera to achieve lasting popularity, had its first performance at Turin's Teatro Regio.[8]

What the cited sources add

Vannoni's 2021 article in Il Ponte states that Puccini presented his first opera, Le Villi, to the "concorso Sonzogno" in 1883, but it was not even considered by those who had to evaluate it, partly because it was a messy manuscript with illegible handwriting.[9] The same article notes that this rejection favored Puccini's move to the rival publishing house, Ricordi.[9] The Centro di Studi Giacomo Puccini carries out multi-year research activity, with projects subject to constant revisions based on developments in international musicology.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ravenni Girardi n.d., p. Introduction (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }}; "Cattedrale di S. Martino", Centro di Studi Giacomo Puccini; ; ; {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }}; {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }}; ; {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }} (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }}; Streatfeild, "The Opera", John C. Nimmo, 1897; Di Cesare, "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", 1998 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Budden 2002, p. 494; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ashbrook Powers 1991 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Giacomo Puccini", Encyclopædia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: {{harvnb|Dry|1905|p= }} (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Giacomo Puccini" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Arte e Scienze", La Stampa, 2 February 1893; "Arte e Scienze", La Stampa, 2 February 1893; "Arte e Scienze", La Stampa, 2 February 1893 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Vannoni, "Galli, questo sconosciuto", Il Ponte, 15 November 2021. facts only, no text reused. ilponte.com
  10. "Cattedrale di S. Martino", Centro di Studi Giacomo Puccini. facts only, no text reused. puccini.it

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Giacomo Puccini (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

More in Notable Figures

Claude DebussyBéla BartókDmitri ShostakovichKarlheinz StockhausenNiccolò PaganiniLouis ArmstrongDjango ReinhardtMiles DavisBing CrosbyFrank SinatraJames BrownDolly Parton

Elsewhere in Historical Figures

Paul Allen · Explorers & BusinessYaa Asantewaa · Rulers & LeadersAnaxagoras · Scientists & InventorsFrancis Fukuyama · Scientists & InventorsJet Li · Writers & JournalistsGreta Garbo · Writers & Journalists

Spotted an error? Know more?

Reader corrections go straight into our review queue. Suggest an edit · How this site is sourced

Comments

Loading…
Open in the interactive codex →