- 416 pages
- English
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Puccini Among Friends
About this book
Puccini was an Italian, a musician, highly strung, temperamental, diffident and easily discouraged, changing quickly from exaltation to despair.
Nearly all of Puccini's biographers remark on his distaste for writing letters, nevertheless when my mother died nearly two years ago I found amongst her papers more than seven hundred letters from him, all written during the last twenty years of his life. From these I have selected, in whole or in part, some three hundred letters to form the basis of this memoir. In no sense of the word can it be considered a formal biography, but rather a portrait, largely
self-drawn, of a very lovable character, and the record of a
singularly beautiful friendship.
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Information
Publisher
Sullivan PressYear
2013Print ISBN
9781406747799, 9781443727150eBook ISBN
9781473389069Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I: The Road to Success (1858–1904)
- Part II: Out of Work (1904–1907)
- Part III: La Fanciulla Del West (1907–1910)
- Part IV: Out of Work Again (1911–1914)
- Part V: War-Time (1914–1918)
- Part VI: Last Years (1919–1924)
- Bibliography
- Index