Puccini: His Life and Works - Rilegato

Budden, Julian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0198164688 ISBN 13: 9780198164685

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2002

Riassunto

Since Mosco Carner's classic study, Puccini: a Critical Biography (1958, 3rd ed. 1993) a revaluation of this most popular of composers has led to a number of important publications, all of which have furnished material for the present overview. This, the first volume in the Master Musicians series devoted to Puccini, integrates life and works, placing each opera in the context of the composer's career. It traces the evolution of this musical language in relation to that of his contemporaries in Italy and abroad, as well as the development of his dramaturgical technique, with occasional reference to subjects that he hoped, yet failed to set, since these can be shown to have a bearing on those which he eventually did.

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Recensione:

... this will be the standard work on Puccini for years to come. (The Tablet)

Julian Budden's style is waffle-free, elegant and often drily witty. (The Tablet)

... we get a good picture of Puccini, his friends and the time he lived in. (The Tablet)

... beautifully printed and set out, a large book that is a joy to handle. It is a joy to read, too. (The Tablet)

Puccini was a master of the leitmotif, connecting characters and moods. Julian Budden can take great credit for helping me to understand how Puccini did this, despite my inability to sight-read the many musical themes he includes. (The Catholic Herald)

Budden's biography, which intelligibly illustrates the developments of Puccini's career and his musical style, is an essential component of Puccini scholarship. (Music Research Forum)

Budden's Puccini: His Life and Works is a well-written and carefully planned study of the career and works of a composer frequently neglected in the academic circle, but extremely popular in the opera houses. He organizes his biography in a manner that enables the readers to navigate easily through the complex history of the composer's career and the making of his works. (Music Research Forum)

Budden draws on his wealth of knowledge of Italian operatic life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in order to provide an exceptionally smooth and insightful narrative of Puccini's life and career. (Music Research Forum)

[Budden] achieves a smooth and seamless narrative of the composer's life and an evaluation of his works that focuses on the development of his musical style. (Music Research Forum)

Those acquainted with Budden's previous volumes [on Verdi] will not be surprised by his thorough and detailed knowledge of the 19th- and 20th-century Italian operatic scene, including many of its neglected byways, nor by his fluent and amiable prose style, which is as clear as it is pithy ... one comes away from Budden's analyses with increased admiration for Puccini's constantly developing compositional skills. (BBC Music Magazine)

L'autore:

Julian Budden, formerly the Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio, currently serves as the President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy. He is the author of the Master Musicians biography of Verdi as well as the three-volumeThe Operas of Verdi.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0198164688
• ISBN 13: 9780198164685
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 538