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Giacomo Puccini (20th-Century Composers)

Giacomo Puccini (20th-Century Composers)

by Conrad Wilson (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is perhaps the world's most popular composer of operas. Works such as La Boheme and Madame Butterfly have a universal appeal and are an essential part of the repetoire of every major opera house. He is renowned above all for his gift as a melodist, but he was also a new force in musical drama, and posessed a tremendous sense of theatre. The author draws attention to the felicity, daring and extraordinary colouring of Puccini's music, and counters the view that he was a retrogressive who through his choice of harrowing subject matter aimed to shock. This is a polemic, passionate and rational attempt to set the man from Lucca among the immortal greats.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 22 May 1997
ISBN 10: 071483291X
ISBN 13: 9780714832913
Book Overview: The design for the 20th-Century Composers series received a 1995 Award for typographic Excellence from the New York Type Director's Club.

Media Reviews
Fascinating and fastidiously researched. A fine book, both emotionally profound and waspishly witty. -The Scotsman A sizzling new biography. -Herald Thoroughly readable and quietly perceptive. -Guardian On the 20th Century Composers Series As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical. -The Scotsman
Author Bio
Conrad Wilson was music critic for the Scotsman from 1963 to 1991, and now writes for the Herald. Author of several publications, including a history of Scottish Opera, he was for many years Programme Editor of the Edinburgh Festival.