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Puccini

A Biography

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An edition of Puccini: the man and his music (1977)

Puccini

A Biography

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"Descended from four generations of distinguished composers and organists, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was driven by family tradition and an ambitious mother to pursue a career that brought him worldwide recognition as the greatest composer of Italian opera after Giuseppe Verdi.

But behind the brilliant creator of such lasting works as La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine, and Turandot, there was a person racked with indecision, self-doubt, bouts of depression, and private misfortunes.".

"In this work, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz brings to life both the man and his circle. Setting Puccini's story within the worlds of his beloved Tuscany and the cutthroat opera business, the author follows the composer from boyhood in his ancestral Lucca, to his struggling student years at the Milan Conservatory, to his early successes and failures, to the artistic triumphs that earned him international celebrity and considerable wealth.

Filled with colorful details and anecdotes drawn from extensive primary sources as well as interviews with descendents, family friends, and colleagues, the book chronicles Puccini's personal sorrows and scandals and recounts his stormy professional rivalries and associations in England, Europe, and the United States. Phillips-Matz also untangles the threads of the gifted artist's complex and contradictory character. She reveals a sophisticated composer who often drew upon exotic thematic material and an elegant cosmopolite who loved his several villas, expensive cars, boats, and fine clothes. Yet Puccini remained passionately wedded to the simple life of the Tuscan countryside of his youth.

This is the place the Maestro returned to in times of turmoil to share the communal joys of hunting and playing cards with his neighbors."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
384

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Puccini: A Biography
October 3, 2002, Northeastern University Press
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Puccini: the man and his music
1978, Hutchinson
in English
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Puccini: the man and his music
1977, E. P. Dutton
in English - 1st ed.
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Puccini: the man and his music
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Library of Congress
ML410.P89P52 2002, ML410.P89 P52 2002

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
384
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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Open Library
OL8574017M
ISBN 10
1555535305
ISBN 13
9781555535308
LCCN
2002009017
OCLC/WorldCat
50028594
Library Thing
244314
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1307243

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