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Puccini

Puccini 1

His Life and Works

by The late Julian Budden
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Publication Date: 23/02/2006
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Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, here is an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama
Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden provides an illuminating look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera--the struggle to find the right performers for the
debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot (he in fact died of cancer before he did so), his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasino or "lion-ass"). Budden provides an informative analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights, among other things, the influence of Wagner on Puccini--alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefront of
his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints an intriguing portrait of Puccini the
man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. Affable, well mannered, gifted with a broad sense of fun, he rarely failed to charm all who met him. A new volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series, Puccini offers a masterful portrait of this beloved Italian composer.
ISBN:
9780195179743
9780195179743
Category:
Individual composers & musicians
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-02-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
552
Dimensions (mm):
234x155x37mm
Weight:
0.79kg

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I discovered Puccini’s music 50 years ago when I was a teenager and was blown away by his talent, the man was a gifted genius, the stunning arias and orchestration of the scores, his music can be so beautiful at times it hurts, the book is a great read, when you really admire someone you like to know something of their background and the life they had, I did know quite a lot about Puccini but this book presents as a nice tribute to him, I would love to have met him to thank him for giving us such awesome music, there’s nothing not to like about him either, he’s my Numero Uno, I often think I hope up there in heaven he knows how much people appreciate his genius

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