Marek: Puccini (New York, 1951 London, 1952) G. Girardi: Giacomo Puccini: l’arte internazionale di un musicista italiano (Venice, 1995) G. Fraccaroli: La vita di Giacomo Puccini (Milan, 1925) M.
Gara (ed.): Carteggi pucciniani Fondazione Puccini, Lucca A. G.Adami: Il romanzo della vita di Giacomo Puccini (Milan, 1944) Biblioteca Passerini Landi, Piacenza E. Julian Budden Florence and London, 2002ĪRP BPP CP FPL FGP GGP GPE MP MPI PAF PCB PCE PGP PLI PRS QP SGP Acknowledgments For help in preparing this book my thanks go to Gabriele Dotto, who granted me unlimited access to the archives of that Casa Ricordi to Mrs Teresa Melen for permitting me to consult the autographs of Puccini’s letters to her grandmother, Sybil Seligman, still available only in the English translation made by her own father,Vincent Seligman to various Puccini scholars, such as Debra Burton-Wrobel, Helen Greenwald, and Roger Parker, and to my colleagues at the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, especially Gabriella Biagi Ravenni for her tireless assistance and encouragement Dieter Schickling, for directing me to unexplored regions of the composer’s life and works and Michele Girardi, whose insights into the music of Puccini and its relation to that of his contemporaries provided me with a wealth of ideas, and do still. In this way I hope to fill out the picture of a composer whose music has spoken directly to the public since the day it was written, and does so still. I have also dwelt briefly on a number of the subjects which occupied him for some time before being laid aside, since they can often be shown to have had a bearing on the works that In discussing the operas I have opted for a narrative technique as the simplest way of illustrating Puccini’s way of adapting his musical ideas to the needs of the drama in hand. 2000).To these must be added the publications of the Istituto di Studi Pucciniani, directed by the composer’s granddaughter Dr Simonetta Puccini, and of the recently founded Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, to say nothing of various articles by distinguished scholars in the standard periodicals, many of which have furnished material for the present overview. A milestone in the revaluation of Puccini was Mosco Carner’s classic study Puccini: A Critical Biography (1958, 3rd edition 1993.) High on the list of its successors stand William Ashbrook’s The Operas of Puccini (1968, reprinted 1985) Dieter Schickling’s meticulously researched Giacomo Puccini: Biographie (1989), which, as well as bringing fresh information to light, corrects numerous errors and assumptions to be found in earlier biographies of the composer, due partly to the unreliable memories of those who knew him, partly to his frequent failure to date his letters and Michele Girardi’s detailed and penetrating Giacomo Puccini: l’arte internazionale di un musicista italiano (1995, Eng. At the time of the series’s foundation the English musical establishment held opera at a discount (had not Sir Hubert Parry declared that lovers of the genre possessed the lowest taste of all those who considered themselves musical?).Therefore inclusion was limited to opera composers who had distinguished themselves in other fields, Wagner alone, as the selfproclaimed heir of Beethoven, being excepted hence the belated recognition of Verdi, Bellini, and, most notably, Rossini. T has taken more than a hundred years for Puccini to be admitted to the ranks of the Master Musicians Series. 4 Edgarġ3 Puccini as Man and Artist Appendices A B C DĬalendar. ML410.P 782.1'092-dc21 2002020155ġ 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paperĬontents Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Key to Sigla ixĢ The Student at Milan. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. (The master musicians) “List of Works” : p. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Budden, Julian. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc.
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