Giacomo Puccini
The life of Giacomo Puccini, composer of many well-loved operas.
Conrad Wilson
Editions:
Price: £9.95
100 points- Paperback
- English
- 220 x 156 mm, 8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in
- 240 pp
- 80 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714847757
- ISBN-10: 0714847755
- A polemical, passionate and rational attempt to set the composer of La Boheme and Madame Butterfly among the immortal greats
- Fully explores the contradictions in Puccini's personality, a man who revelled in the worldly success his operas brought him yet remained insecure about his creative powers
- Draws attention to the felicity, daring and extraordinary colouring of Puccini's music
'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)
'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 enthusiatically musical...' (The Scotsman)
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