Schickling devotes two to seven times more The amount of material presented for any one work shows the sameĭegree of expansion. Where Hopkinson lists 26 works, Schickling accounts for 88. Including all editions that show distinct musical states of the However, gives detailed attention to all the musical sources, Though it is for collectors, is primarily concerned with printedĮditions an appendix lists manuscripts. Puccini, 1858-1924 (New York: Broude Brothers, 1968), essential And now he has taken on the task of surveyingĬecil Hopkinson's A Bibliography of the Works of Giacomo Schickling has established himself as one of the preeminent Puccini Puccini: Biographie ), and a steady stream of important articles, Dieter With his masterful biography of the composer (Giacomo The various printed editions are daunting tasks, furtherĬomplicated as more sources come to light and knowledge of the The genesis of the work and identifying the relationships between Relating the manuscript sources to the chronology of Was one of the great revisers in the history of music, oftenĪdjusting things well after the premiere according to what workedīest onstage. Musical sources for the operas are voluminous,Īs the composer was seldom content with what he had written, and Puccini studies, however, has been the lack of a comprehensiveĬatalog of sources. Interest in the composer (Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Puccini scholarship documents the history of the increasing Pioneering musicologists who looked more deeply at Puccini's worksĪnd their sources. Happily that is all behind us, thanks largely to a handful of
To the Sunday morning slot, and even then the only Italians deemedįit for discussion were Verdi and Rossini. Society meeting, in the early 1970s, when all opera was relegated I remember my first national American Musicological Twentieth-century opera house was somehow unworthy of scholarly Judgment was that any work that enjoyed wildly popular success in a
Text that made only begrudging reference to Puccini, relegating theĭiscussion of his entire oeuvre to a paragraph. Many readers may remember a popular undergraduate music history In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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