SKU: HL.49041676
ISBN 9783254080158. 4.75x7.5x0.592 inches. Italian - German - English.
Glucklich, endlich den langgesuchten grossen Opernstoff gefunden zu haben, begann Puccini seine Turandot. Es ist sein letztes Werk: Krankheit und Tod hinderten den Komponisten an der Vollendung, die aber einem jungeren Kollegen, Franco Alfano, meisterhaft gelang - unter Verwendung vieler hinterlassenen Aufzeichnungen und Skizzen Puccinis.Dieses Buch enthalt neben dem Textbuch einfuhrende Kommentare von Kurt Pahlen. Er begleitet das musikalische und das aussere wie innere dramatische Geschehen der Oper mit Hinweisen zu kompositorischer Struktur und Sinnzusammenhang. Eine Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der Entstehungsgeschichte stellen das Werk in einen Zusammenhang mit dem Gesamtschaffen des Komponisten und seiner Biographie und bieten eine umfassende, reich illustrierte Einfuhrung.
SKU: CA.5600300
ISBN 9790007188047.
The organ is the instrument on which the young Giacomo Puccini began his career as a musician. Through the rediscovery of a considerable number of hand-written pieces, which he composed after 1870 as part of his duties as organist in the churches of Lucca, several primary sources are now available. These give an insight into the beginnings of his musical activities which have only been known about from anecdotes from his first biographers until now. Puccini's organ repertoire includes works which were typical for liturgical organ music at that time: sonatas for the main sections of the mass, versets which were substituted for Gregorian chant, marches, which were played after the mass (exceptionally even waltzes), and even a pastorale for Christmas time. This music was written with the sound of instruments made in Tuscany in mind. These have just one manual, a 8 foot Principale register and a small pedalboard always coupled to the manual. In addition there were several solo stops divided into bass and soprano.Puccini contributed with originality to the renewal of Italian organ practice, which began in his day to discard its operatic style in favor of a style more suited to the liturgy.
SKU: CA.5600200
ISBN 9790007143275.
As the second volume of the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, a critical new edition of his compositions for orchestra has been published in the series Musical Works. In addition to the familiar Preludio a orchestra (SC 1), Preludio sinfonico (SC 32), Trio in Fa (SC 52) and Capriccio sinfonico (SC 55), the volume contains a short but unknown Adagetto (SC 51), probably a sketch of a composition from Puccini's student years in Milan. And, for the first time ever, it also includes an orchestral version of the Scherzo in La (SC 34) from 1882, a work which was just recently discovered. The Scherzo, known until now only in a version for string quartet, complements the Trio in Fa, which is scored for the same orchestral forces, to form an independent movement.
SKU: CA.5600105
ISBN 9790007188306. Language: Latin.
Available upon request. New edition with complete performance material: 56.001/01. Score available separately - see item CA.5600100.
SKU: CA.5600100
ISBN 9790007137236. Language: Latin.
Available upon request. New edition with complete performance material: 56.001/01.
SKU: BA.BVK01582
ISBN 9783761815823. 27.6 x 19.9 cm inches.
Judged by number of works, Giacomo Puccini left behind a relatively slender oeuvre . Nonetheless, the most popular of his operas as well as theminor piecespose some-times thorny bibliographical, editorial, and source-critical problems. The composer of La Boheme and Madama Butterfly constantly tinkered with his compositions, and the changes are reflected in a welter of conflicting printed editions. Dieter Schickling's detailed thematic catalogue brings order into this editor's nightmare while offering complete coverage of all of Puccini's music, including the surviving drafts. It is a standard reference work, not only for scholars and libraries throughout the world, but also for music antiquarians and autograph dealers.
