Giacomo Puccini (20th Century Composers)

By Conrad Wilson

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is perhaps the world's most popular composer of operas. Works such as La Bohème 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071483291X
• ISBN13: 9780714832913
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary