Puccini

Music by Giacomo Puccini at Carus

For the Puccini Year 2024, Carus-Verlag is presenting a whole series of special offers. To kick off the anniversary year, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini is organizing a symposium on Giacomo Puccini in Stuttgart in cooperation with the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini and Carus-Verlag. And who doesn't think of Puccini's famous work Messa a quattro voci, also known as Messa di Gloria? In addition to a high-quality linen edition, which includes numerous corrections to the traditional musical text, we also offer an arrangement by Joachim Linckelmann, which also gives smaller ensembles the opportunity to perform the work. The recording of the mass by the Gaechinger Cantorey and the Dresdner Kammerchor under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann was completed in time for the anniversary and can be ordered here. Special mention should be made of Dieter Schickling's biography of the composer's life and work, the great Puccini biography par excellence. There are also lesser-known organ works and much more. Click through the overview and get to know Puccini anew in his great anniversary year!
  • Messa di Gloria

    This edition speaks for itself: This scholarly-critical edition of Puccini’s only mass is based on the Urtext of the "Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini". The Edizione has been published by the international research institute "Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini" since 2013. 

    An examination of the autograph score has led to numerous corrections being made in the "Edizione Nazionale" compared with the old-established music text of this work. We have the edition with complete sheet music and practice aids!

  • Arrangement for chamber orchestra (arr. J. Linckelmann)

    How often do choir directors want to perform the famous Messa di Gloria, but do not have a large enough ensemble at hand? This arrangement for chamber orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, timpani and strings) solves the problem:

    smaller ensembles are also given the opportunity to perform this work without the choir being dominated by a large symphony orchestra.

    The symphonic character of the work is nevertheless preserved. This scoring offers an optimal balance between transparency and orchestral sound.

    All the vocal parts (soloists and chorus) are identical with the original version (56.001), so that the vocal score and choral score of that version can be used.

  • A worthwile discovery: Composizioni per pianoforte

    Puccini as a creator of piano music? The new volume of the Edizione Nazionale invites you to discover this still largely unknown side of the composer. Many previously unpublished works are available here for the first time. These works shed an interesting light on Puccini’s earliest days as a composer and allow us to follow his burgeoning skills. It’s well worth discovering this little-known side of Puccini!

  • Brand new recording: Puccini's Messa di Gloria on CD

    A brand new recording of Puccini's Messa di Gloria is available just in time for the Puccini anniversary in 2024! Under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann, the Dresden Chamber Choir and the Gaechinger Cantorey have recorded Puccini's famous Messa a 4 voci.

    This interpretation is an extraordinary experience: listen to the audio samples on the product page! The CD also includes a new recording of Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri.

  • Opera in 10 minutes: I figli d'Italia bella

    Great opera in only 10 minutes! An impressive early work by Puccini, considered lost for many years, is finally available as sheet music: In 2019, an anonymous and previously unattributed manuscript was identified as an autograph of Puccini.

    It became clear that this was the missing complete score! Now we can hear how the composer captured the text in thrilling style with solo tenor, choir and large orchestra to create a vibrant work brimming with youthful sparkle and energy.

    The cantata perfectly complements Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (Carus 56.001).

  • Requiem aeternam

    An impressive oeuvre easily achievable: Puccini wrote the short Requiem – actually the setting of the antiphon to the Introit of the Mass for the Dead – as a commission for the publisher Giulio Ricordi for the fourth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, which occurred on 27 January 1905.

    Today the work is often performed, since this setting for three voices can be easily performed by amateur choirs and requires only a viola and a harmonium (or organ) as accompanying instruments.

  • Puccini Biography

    (Only available in German.) Use the Puccini anniversary year 2024 to find out more about the life and work of the world-famous composer: The biography by Dieter Schickling, which is based on the latest research, is dedicated equally to Puccini's life and his work. It clearly shows how Puccini struggled to musically realise the direct expression of emotions.

    His temperament, which can be felt in his music, corresponds to his way of life, his intense relationships with women, his passion for hunting, cars and motorboats. A fascinating personality of the musical theatre. New edition in paperback, revised by the author.

  • Sonate, Versetti, Marce. Selected Organ Works

    It's a first! Now that the manuscripts of the organ sonatas have resurfaced, it has finally become possible to form an acquaintance with the major part of Giacomo Puccini’s early compositions in Lucca, which until now were known only from anecdotes.

    The present selection with 12 works sheds light on this segment of his oeuvre.

  • Giacomo Puccini Symposium 2024

    Tuesday, 16 January 2024, will be remembered as an extraordinary day for its many scientific, artistic and personal contributions. To mark the first anniversary of the death of the well-known Puccini researcher Dieter Schickling from Stuttgart, Carus-Verlag together with the Centro Studi delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini and the Edizione Nazionale organized a symposium (held on the premises of Carus-Verlag) aimed at summarizing current research trends and projects, compiling joint projects and the achievements of the past years as well as peering into the future of Puccini research.