Puccini
Subtitle: His Life and Works (Master Musicians Series)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 23, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780195179743
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.'