Choral music by Giacomo Puccini

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!

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.

The missing piece: Puccini's Preludio a Orchestra, one of the composer's earliest surviving works, is now at last available in an authentic, complete version! For a long time this piece was known only from a single fragmentary source with a passage missing from the middle section. But a few years ago a previously unknown manuscript was discovered in the Puccini Archive in Torre del Lago, and this was ultimately recognized as the autograph score of the Preludio a Orchestra. And it turned out that the score contains the complete work!

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 Many previously unpublished works are available here for the first time.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!

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! Available on CD and on all major streaming platforms.

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.

(Only available in German.) 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.

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.

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.