Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini[n 1] (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) [1] was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, [2] he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era
Giacomo Puccini | Biography, Operas, Facts | Britannica Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was an Italian composer who was one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism He virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end
Life - Puccini Museum Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca on 22 December, 1858, the last of a dynasty of composers who for more than a century held a virtual monopoly of the city’s musical life
Puccini: The Early Years - SFO Puccini made ends meet by giving piano lessons and submitting work to music competitions His first stage work, La Ville, was initially submitted to a Casa Musicale Sonzogno opera competition with librettist Ferdinando Fontana
Giacomo Puccini - Opéra national de Paris Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy, to a family of organists (his father was a notorious theoretician and music teacher) A performance of Verdi's Aida, which he saw in Pisa in 1876, convinced him that his vocation was to become a composer