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Giacomo Puccini
1858 - 1924
Italy
| G.A.D.M. Puccini |
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele [Giacomo] Puccini (22/12/1858 - 29/11/1924), an Italian composer of mainly operas, born in Lucca. Education: Pacini Institute, Lucca, Italy, 1880; Royal Conservatory of Music, Milan, 1883. Achievements: last great Italian opera composer. Created perennial favorites of the opera world, including La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.
Requiem aeternam, from opera Edgar
| Period: | Romanticism |
| Composed in: | 1889 |
| Musical form: | opera |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| Duration: | ca. 9' |
| Label(s): | Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 6102 |
Requiem aeternam, from opera Edgar (1889), act 3, nr.2.
Requiem
♫ Requiem
© ASV CD DCA 914
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1905 |
| Musical form: | fragment |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| Duration: | ca.6' |
| In memory of: | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Label(s): | ASV CD DCA 914 |
| Bongiovanni GB 2037-2 | |
| Ars Musici AM 1265-2 | |
| Deutsche Grammaphon 00289 4800767 |
♫ Requiem
© ASV CD DCA 914
Requiem for mixed voices, solo viola and organ in memory of Verdi who died in 1901. The duration of Puccini's requiem is only 5'35. But it is a masterpiece with a lovely and moving violinsolo. The mournful tones of the solo viola lend a ditinctive atmosphere to the composition which is also characterised by the composer's restrained choral writing, and his use of subtly shifting harmonies in the organ part.
| Author: | Geoffrey Webber |
| G. Verdi (dedicatee) |