Mosco cerner puccini biography examples

The life and works of Giacomo Puccini, composer of La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turnadot, and other universal operatic favorites, are here presented in detail for the first time in any language in a book unlikely ever to be superseded.

A full-length recounting of Puccini's fascinating life, rich in previously unused materials, is followed by detailed analyses of each of his operas and other compositions.

Mosco cerner puccini biography examples

The author, a Viennese conductor and musicologist, has performed this monumental task with knowledge, grace, and insight. The biography brings to life a curious, somewhat ambiguous man whose greatly successful career was marked alternately by storms, tragedies, and triumphs, a genius who somehow missed the final greatness.

His relations with his family, colleagues, librettists, singers, conductors--and his peculiar, convoluted relationship with his wife--have some of the very drama that has made his operas so enduringly popular. Puccini's le