Puccini His Life and Works

Name: Puccini His Life and Works
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ISBN: 9780198164685

ISBN-10: 0198164688

ISBN-13: 9780198164685

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julian Budden

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Since Mosco Carner's classic study, Puccini: a Critical Biography (1958, 3rd ed. 1993) a revaluation of this most popular of composers has led to a number of important publications, all of which have furnished material for the present overview. This, the first volume in the Master Musicians series devoted to Puccini, integrates life and works, placing each opera in the context of the composer's career. It traces the evolution of this musical language in relation to that ofhis contemporaries in Italy and abroad, as well as the development of his dramaturgical technique, with occasional reference to subjects that he hoped, yet failed to set, since these can be shown to have a bearing on those…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 552
Size: 9.56" wide x 6.38" long x 1.64" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Julian Budden, now deceased, served as the Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio as the President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy. In addition to his Master Musicians volume on Verdi, he is also the author of the Master Musicians biography of Puccini (OUP, 2002) as well as the three-volume The Operas of Verdi (OUP, 1978-1981, revised edition 1992).



Preface


Acknowledgments


Key to Sigla



Early Life at Lucca



The Student at Milan



Le Villi



Edgar



Manon Lescaut



La boheme



Tosca



Madama Butterfly



La fanciulla del West



La rondine



Il trittico



Turandot



Puccini as Man and Artist


Appendices



Calendar



List of Works



Personalia



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