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This review is from: The Unknown Puccini: A Historical Perspective on the Songs Including Little-Known Music from Edgar and La Rondine, with complete music for voice and piano (Hardcover)
Michael Kaye has the distinction of being a musicologist who has a literary perspective. His research into some of the lesser-known works of Puccini - most of which were either songs written for ephemeral occasions, or arias dropped from early operas - is always of interest. The story behind most of the works presented here is pedestrian, but some of them are amusing - some outrageous. The composer was not tremendously prolific, and he recycled most of what he rejected into something useful. To me, anyway, this reinforces my view of Puccini as a rather sloppy tradesman who turned out some gorgeous work. Irascible (probably due to his untreated diabetes), womanizer (well, he was Italian), fiercely competitive (he beat Leoncavallo to LaBoheme, and Verdi to Tosca!), this is a scholarly look at the mortar, if you will, between the bricks.
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The Unknown Puccini: A Historical Perspective on the Songs Including Little-Known Music from Edgar and La Rondine, with complete music fo... by Michael Kaye (Hardcover - May 28, 1987)
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