In cooperation with the Fondazione Puccini und dem Centro studi G. Puccini in Lucca.
Reconstruction of a missing passage by Wolfgang Ludewig.
Through its original treatment of form and the conscious use of orchestral colors, Giacomo Puccini‘s first surviving work, Preludio a Orchestra from 1876, allows a glimpse of the composer who would later become a master of the operatic stage. This first critical edition also contains a reconstruction of the missing passage from the middle section, thus restoring a sense of closed form to this work. The Preludio was performed for the first time in this new version on 16 October 2005 by the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, under the direction of Riccardo Chailly.
NEW: 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” can be performed in its original form for the very first time! The scores are available for hire and as a preprint (Carus 56.002/50).
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Composer
Giacomo Puccini
| 1858-1924Giacomo 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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Editor
Michele Girardi
| 1954-2025
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Arranger
Wolfgang Ludewig
| -2017
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