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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (23 December - 29 November ) was the most famous Italianoperacomposer after Verdi.
Puccini composer biography worksheet
He wrote 16 operas. Most of them are performed very often today. Many of his operatic songs are known by many people, especially the ariaNessun dorma from Turandot which was sung by Luciano Pavarotti for the BBC’stelevision coverage of the Football World Cup which was held in Italy in
Early life
[change | change source]Puccini was born in Lucca, Tuscany into a musical family.
He was expected to follow the family tradition and become a churchorganist. He started playing the organ in churches near Lucca. He liked to improvise on the organ, playing popular tunes from Verdi’s operas. He soon realized that he wanted to be an opera composer.
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Eventually he persuaded his family to let him study at the Milan Conservatory. His earliest compositions showed that he had a great talent for writing beautiful melodies and that he was good at writing for the orchestra. H