Giacomo Puccini Sonate, Versetti, Marce. Selected Organ Works

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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, scheduled to appear in a complete single-volume scholarly edition in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini (ENOGP, II/2.1).

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  • N. 1 Sonata in Sol maggiore
  • N. 2 Sonata in Sol maggiore
  • N. 3 Sonata in Sol maggiore
  • N. 7 Sonata in Sol maggiore
  • Marcia in Re maggiore [Nr. 9]
  • Sonata in Sol maggiore, Maestoso [Nr. 6]
  • Marcia in Re maggiore [Nr. 4]
  • Intermezzo (da Manon Lescaut)
  • Sonata in Re maggiore [Nr. 17]
  • Sonata in Sol maggiore [Nr. 3]
  • N. 6 Sonata in Sol maggiore - Allegro
  • Versetto in Sol maggiore, Allegretto [Nr. 23]
  • Versetto in La maggiore, Maestoso [Nr. 26]
  • Intermezzo (da Suor Angelica)
  • N. 12 Marcia per organo in Re maggiore
  • Versetto in Mi minore, Allegro [Nr. 22]
  • Sonata su Questa o quella dal Rigoletto [Nr. 1]
  • N. 9 Marcia in Do maggiore - Allegro
  • Versetto in Sol maggiore, Allegro [Nr. 24]
  • N. 4 Sonata in La maggiore - Tempo di Valzer però un poco meno
  • N. 11 Marcia in Sol maggiore
  • Sonata in Re minore [Nr. 5]
  • N. 10 Sonata in Re maggiore [Marcia e Valzer]
  • Versetto in La maggiore [Nr. 25]
  • Marcia in La maggiore
  • Tosca, Grande Fantasia di Emile Tavan
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  • Giacomo Puccini came from a dynasty of church musicians who worked in the Tuscan city of Lucca. His Messa a 4 con orchestra, premiered there in 1880, seemed to point him toward a career in the same direction, but directly after this, he went to Milan Conservatoire with the aim of becoming an opera composer. His only independent orchestral works were written there as student works – the Preludio sinfonico (1882) and Capriccio sinfonico (1883), as well as some of his 16 complete surviving songs for voice and piano (Canti), which he composed, with frequent references to his operas, almost throughout his career. He achieved a breakthrough as an opera composer with Manon Lescaut (1893); between 1893 and 1904 he composed La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, which remain his most frequently-performed works today. In recent years there has been a growing realisation that Puccini's entire output requires reappraisal. And so, he has increasingly come to be understood as a musician searching for a way forward into the modern age. Personal details

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... Eine wertvolle Bereicherung des italienischen Repertoires also, für einmal von einem grossen und bekannten Komponisten, vielseitig verwendbar in Gottesdienst und Konzert - und mit Erfolgsgarantie!
Schweizer Musikzeitung, 9/10/2018

... Die Neu- bzw. Erstausgabe bietet mit ihrer heiter-beschwingten Musik den Interpreten und Interpretinnen Gelegenheit, sich auch dort zu profilieren, wo Orgelmusik derzeit einen eher schweren Stand hat.
Joachim Schreiber, Ars Organi, Sept. 2019

Sie steht ganz in der Tradition kleiner italienischer Orgel-Häppchen für den liturgischen Gebrauch, ist manualiter ausführbar und eher für ein Konzert „Heitere Orgelmusik” geeignet.
Forum Kirchenmusik, 5.2018

Die kurzen Stücke zeichnen sich oft durch großes Unterhaltungspotenzial bei roher Effizienz aus: Der Aufwand ist klein und die Wirkung groß, so dass dieser Band als Fundus für „Rausschmeisser” bei Konzerten oder festlichen Ausgangsspielen zu besonderen Anlässen ein Muss ist!
Musik und Gottesdienst, November 2018

... Bref : un pan de l'univers musical puccinien inattendu.
Édith Weber, L'éducation musicale, Lettre d'information, no 120 mai 2018

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