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Giacomo Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, written in the verismo tradition of emotionally direct, realistically observed drama, remain among the most frequently performed works in the world. La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly established him as the leading Italian opera composer after Verdi, prized for lyrical, immediately memorable melody and a keen sense of theatrical pacing. His final opera, Turandot, was left unfinished at his death in 1924 and completed by another composer from his sketches. Puccini's gift for combining orchestral color with vocal writing that serves character and emotion has kept his major operas in continuous international repertoire.

Facts
Birth Year
1858 1
Death Year
1924 1
Nationality
Italian 1
Birth Date
1858-12-22 1
Death Date
1924-11-29 1
Birthplace
Lucca, Grand Duchy of Tuscany 1
Death Place
Brussels, Belgium 1
Active From Year
1880 2
Training
Studied composition at the Milan Conservatory under Amilcare Ponchielli and others, after earlier study at Lucca's Pacini School of Music 1
Classification
Gender
Male 1
Connections

Practices

Music, Art Forms
Source Giacomo Puccini (Wikipedia)

Works Created

Madama Butterfly, Works
Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansStanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
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Nationality

Italy

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Source Giacomo Puccini (Wikipedia)Lead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

Originated In

Lucca

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Source Wikidata: Giacomo Puccini
Sources
1. Giacomo Puccini (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead paragraph 1
    was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.
  • Infobox: birth_date
    December 22, 1858
  • Family and education section
    he studied composition with Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, Amilcare Ponchielli, Amintore Galli, and Antonio Bazzini
  • Death section
    Puccini died in Brussels on 29 November 1924, aged 65, from complications after the treatment
  • Family and education section (birthplace)
    Born in Lucca in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in 1858; he was the sixth of nine children of Michele Puccini
  • Infobox: death_date
    November 29, 1924
  • Practices: Music, Lead section
    Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858 - 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era.
  • In Group: Romantic Composers, Lead
    Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
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2. New World Encyclopedia: Giacomo Puccini - New World Encyclopedia
New World EncyclopediaEarly life
Quote, Early life
In 1880, Puccini traveled to the Conservatory of Music in Milan to begin his career by studying composition with Amilcare Ponchielli.
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Wikidata: Giacomo Puccini
Wikidata Q7311, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Stanley Sadie, editor (successive editions), Oxford University PressWorks Created: Madama Butterfly
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