Giacomo Puccini Preludio a orchestra

1876

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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! So now Puccini's “Op. 1”, this remarkable testimony to his very early creative period, rich in formal, melodic and harmonic inventiveness, can be performed in its original form for the very first time!

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Full score, for hire Carus 56.002/50, ISBN 978-3-89948-475-5, ISMN 979-0-007-35380-3 20 pages, DIN A4, paperback

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Set of parts, complete orchestral parts, for hire Carus 56.002/69 23 x 32 cm, without cover

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1 x Set of parts, harmony parts, for hire, piccolo, flute 1, flute 2, oboe 1, oboe 2, clarinet 1, clarinet 2, bassoon 1, bassoon 2, french horn 1, french horn 2, trumpet 1, trumpet 2, trombone 1, trombone 2, trombone 3, ophicleide, timpani (56.002/59)

1 x Individual part, violin 1, for hire (56.002/61)

1 x Individual part, violin 2, for hire (56.002/62)

1 x Individual part, viola, for hire (56.002/63)

1 x Individual part, violoncello, for hire (56.002/64)

1 x Individual part, double bass, for hire (56.002/65)

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Composer
Giacomo Puccini
| 1858-1924

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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Michele Girardi
| 1954-2025

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