List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini explained

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas, his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative of verismo, a radically realist approach.

Operas

+ Operas by Giacomo Puccini^[1]
Title	Genre	Acts	Language	Librettist	Premiere
					Date	Venue
Le Villi	Leggenda drammatica	1 act	Italian	Ferdinando Fontana	31 May 1884	Teatro Dal Verme
		2 acts			26 December 1884	Teatro Regio
Edgar	Dramma lirico	4 acts	Italian	Ferdinando Fontana	21 April 1889	La Scala
					5 September 1891	Teatro del Giglio
		3 acts			28 January 1892	Teatro Comunale
Manon Lescaut	Dramma lirico	4 acts	Italian	Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Olivia	1 February 1893	Teatro Regio
La bohème	Opera	4 acts	Italian	Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa	1 February 1896	Teatro Regio
Tosca	Melodrama	3 acts	Italian	Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa	14 January 1900	Teatro Costanzi
Madama Butterfly	Tragedia giapponese	2 acts	Italian	Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa	17 February 1904	La Scala
					28 May 1904	Teatro Grande
					10 July 1905	Covent Garden
		3 acts			28 December 1906	Opéra-Comique
La fanciulla del West	Opera	3 acts	Italian	Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini	10 December 1910	Metropolitan Opera
La rondine	Commedia lirica	3 acts	Italian	Giuseppe Adami	27 March 1917	Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Il trittico					14 December 1918	Metropolitan Opera
Il tabarro	Opera	1 act	Italian	Giuseppe Adami
Suor Angelica	Opera	1 act	Italian	Giovacchino Forzano
Gianni Schicchi	Opera	1 act	Italian	Giovacchino Forzano
Turandot Incomplete (compl. by Franco Alfano)	Dramma lirico	3 acts	Italian	Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami	25 April 1926	La Scala

Other works

(by genre, categorized by date)

Art songs

• A te (c. 1875)
• Plaudite populi (Lucca, 1877)
• Credo (Lucca, 1878)
• Vexilla Regis (1878)
• Sole e amore (1888)
• Salve del ciel Regina (c. 1882)
• Mentìa l’avviso (c. 1882)
• Storiella d’amore (1883)
• Piccolo valzer (1894)
• Avanti Urania! (1896)
• Scossa elettrica (1896)
• Inno a Diana (1897)
• E l'uccellino (1899)
• Terra e mare (1902)
• Canto d'anime (1904)
• Dios y Patria (himno escolar, text in Spanish, 3 August 1905, Buenos Aires)
• Casa mia, casa mia (1908)
• Sogno d'or (1913)
• Morire? (c. 1917) – This song was transposed by a half step (into G-flat major) and set to different text in the 1st revision of his work La rondine called "Parigi è la città dei desideri" which is sung by Ruggero in the 1st act. Besides the key and text changes, it is the exact music to the aria.
• Inno a Roma (1 June 1919, Rome)

Orchestral

• Preludio sinfonico in A Major (1876)
• Capriccio sinfonico (1883)
• Pezzi per organo e per pianoforte (1874-1878)
• Preludio Sinfonico in A major (Milan, 1882)
• Largo Adagietto in F major (c. 1881–83)

Piano

• Foglio d’Album in Bb Major
• Pezzo per pianoforte (1916)
• Fugues (c. 1883)
• Scherzo in D (1883)
• Adagio in A major (1881)

Chamber

• Scherzo in A Minor for String Quartet (c.1880-1883)
• String Quartet in D Major (c.1880-1883)
• 3 Minuetti for String Quartet (1881)
• I Crisantemi for String Quartet (1892) (movement for string quartet, 1890, a Threnody "Alla memoria di Amedeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta", composed in the course of a single night in memory of his friend the duke of Aosta)^{[2] [3]}

Choral music

• Requiem (27 January 1905, Milan)
• Messa a 4 voci con orchestra (Lucca, 1880) Published in 1951 as Messa di Gloria

Sources

• Book: Budden, Julian . 2005 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=ecPQCwAAQBAJ}} Puccini: His Life and Works ]. . Oxford, England . 978-0-19-534625-1 .
• Book: Fairtile, Linda B. . 2013 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=8dhEAQAAQBAJ}} Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research ]. . Oxford, England . 978-1-135-59241-7 .
• Encyclopedia: Girardi . Michele . 2001 . . Puccini, Giacomo . . Oxford, England . 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.6002278242 . subscription .

Notes and References

1. Information is from, unless otherwise noted.
2. http://allegriquartet.org.uk/ProgrammeNotes/PucciniCrisantemi.htm Allegriquartet website
3. Book: Robin Stowell. The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. 13 November 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00042-0. Cambridge Companions to Music. 260.