Puccini
Subtitle: His Life and Works (Master Musicians Series)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780198164685
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Theory of music & musicology; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern Music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; Puccini, Giacomo; Composers & Musicians - General; 1858-1924; Biography; Composers; Italy; Puccini, Giacomo,
First sentence: 'AND YOU, MY BELOVED BROTHERS, WHOSE HEARTS RESPOND to the call of Christian charity, would do well to spare a thought for a mother, now in her eighties, for a bereaved and lonely widow, for six daughters of tender years, for a young lad, sole survivor and inheritor of the art of harmony which his forebears so abundantly reaped, and which he will one day be able to revive.'