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The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas, his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative of verismo, a radically realist approach.

Operas

Other works

(by genre, categorized by date)

Art songs

• A te (c. 1875)
• Plaudite populi (Lucca, 1877)
• Credo (Lucca, 1878)
• Vexilla Regis (1878)
• Sole e amore (1888)
• Salve del ciel Regina (c. 1882)
• Mentìa l’avviso (c. 1882)
• Storiella d’amore (1883)
• Piccolo valzer (1894)
• Avanti Urania! (1896)
• Scossa elettrica (1896)
• Inno a Diana (1897)
• E l'uccellino (1899)
• Terra e mare (1902)
• Canto d'anime (1904)
• Dios y Patria (himno escolar, text in Spanish, 3 August 1905, Buenos Aires)
• Casa mia, casa mia (1908)
• Sogno d'or (1913)
• Morire? (c. 1917) – This song was transposed by a half step (into G-flat major) and set to different text in the 1st revision of his work La rondine called "Parigi è la città dei desideri" which is sung by Ruggero in the 1st act. Besides the key and text changes, it is the exact music to the aria.
• Inno a Roma (1 June 1919, Rome)

Orchestral

• Preludio sinfonico in A Major (1876)
• Capriccio sinfonico (1883)
• Pezzi per organo e per pianoforte (1874-1878)
• Preludio Sinfonico in A major (Milan, 1882)
• Largo Adagietto in F major (c. 1881–83)

Piano

• Foglio d’Album in Bb Major
• Pezzo per pianoforte (1916)
• Fugues (c. 1883)
• Scherzo in D (1883)

• Adagio in A major (1881)

Chamber

• Scherzo in A Minor for String Quartet (c.1880-1883)
• String Quartet in D Major (c.1880-1883)
• 3 Minuetti for String Quartet (1881)
• I Crisantemi for String Quartet (1892) (movement for string quartet, 1890, a Threnody "Alla memoria di Amedeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta", composed in the course of a single night in memory of his friend the duke of Aosta)

Choral music

• Requiem (27 January 1905, Milan)
• Messa a 4 voci con orchestra (Lucca, 1880) Published in 1951 as Messa di Gloria

Notes

1. * third version (in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 24 January 1885)
   • fourth version (in two acts – premiered at the Teatro dal Verme, 7 November 1889)
2. fourth version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Opera, 8 July 1905)
3. second version (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro Coccia, 21 December 1893)
4. fifth version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Carcano, 9 December 1920)
5. second version (in three acts – premiered at La Scala, 29 December 1912)
6. * second version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Massimo, 10 April 1920)
   • third version (in three acts – possible premier at the Teatro Verdi, 11 April 1924); orchestration of the third act completed in 1994 by Lorenzo Ferrero (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 22 March 1994)
7. An alternative completion was commissioned from Luciano Berio in 2002

References

1. Information is from Girardi (2001), unless otherwise noted.
2. Allegriquartet website Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
3. Robin Stowell (13 November 2003). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-521-00042-0.

Sources

• Budden, Julian (2005). Puccini: His Life and Works. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534625-1.

• Fairtile, Linda B. (2013). Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research. Oxford, England: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-59241-7.

• Girardi, Michele (2001). "Puccini, Giacomo". Grove Music Online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.6002278242. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

External links

• Free scores by Giacomo Puccini at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

• Classical music
• Opera

• Compositions by Giacomo Puccini
• Lists of compositions by composer