9780714832913: Giacomo Puccini

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{"authorDescription":"Conrad Wilson","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":10715,"guid":"5b0ded22-f87c-4ccf-aa86-1345357b74a0","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"29.95","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"24.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"14.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"24.95","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714832913","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Paperback","colIlls":null,"extent":"240","language":"English","lenInch":"8 5/8","lenMm":"220","weightKilo":"0.66","widthInch":"6 1/8","widthMm":"156"},"status":false,"subtitle":"","title":"Giacomo Puccini","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Conrad Wilson was music critic for the \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c/i\u003e from 1963 to 1991, and now writes for the \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c/i\u003e. Author of several publications, including a history of Scottish Opera, he was for many years Programme Editor of the Edinburgh Festival.","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eGiacomo Puccini (1858-1924), composer of such popular operas as \u003ci\u003eLa Bohème\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMadame Butterfly\u003c/i\u003e, is most renowned for his gift as a melodist. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his final opera, \u003ci\u003eTurandot\u003c/i\u003e, Puccini composed the last Italian work in the genre to hold a firm place in the international repertoire. The author draws attention to the felicity, daring and extraordinary colour of his music, to counter the view held during Puccini's lifetime that he was a retrogressive composer who aimed to shock. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePuccini is shown to have been a dynamic new force in musical drama, and yet was a man who remained insecure about his creative powers. Conrad Wilson's objective book is none the less a polemical, passionate and poignant attempt to set the man from Lucca among the immortal greats.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Fascinating and fastidiously researched. A fine book, both emotionally profound and waspishly witty.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A sizzling new biography.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eHerald\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Thoroughly readable and quietly perceptive.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e On the \u003cem\u003e20th Century Composers\u003c/em\u003e Series\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;As a series, Phaidon's \u003cem\u003e20th Century Composers \u003c/em\u003ehas brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n","webShortDescription":"A biography of the composer renowned for his gift as a melodist."}