Domenico Puccini (1772-1815)
- Concerto (en si bemolle maggiore) di Piano-Forte
Performers: Eugen List (1918-1985, piano); Austrian Tonkuenstler Orchestra;
Zlatko Topolski (conductor)
Further info: Domenico Puccini (1772-1815) - Overture Il Ciarlatano & Concerto in Si bemolle maggiore
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Italian composer, son of Antonio Puccini (1747-1832) and grandson of
Giacomo Puccini (1712-1781). He was first taught by his parents and –
with a bursary from the Lucca authorities, like his father – continued
his studies in Bologna (1793-96) under Mattei and in Naples (1797-99)
under Paisiello, which undoubtedly directed him – the first of his
family – towards a theatrical career, and he remained in frequent,
friendly correspondence with him. Having returned to Lucca, after the
dispersal of the Cappella di Palazzo where he worked with his father (he
also played beside him on the organ of S Martino), Domenico was from
1806 to 1809 director of the small Cappella di Camera (founded by
Napoleon’s sister, Elisa Baciochi, then Regent of Lucca) and of a
municipal chapel from 1811 to 1815. His sudden death in that year was
not, as has been claimed, the result of poisoning for political reasons.
In an early 19th-century engraving by Luigi Scotti, Domenico appears
with other well-known contemporary musicians, a sure sign of the esteem
that his music enjoyed. Domenico’s output is more varied than that of
his father and grandfather: besides sacred music, often sensitive to
changing political conditions, he wrote instrumental and vocal chamber
works, but was chiefly involved in opera composition. His style is
completely theatrical, even in sacred and vocal chamber compositions; it
differed from that of his father so much that his father could not
complete his unfinished Te Deum. The style is very simple and fluid; in
his operas, especially the comic ones, he reveals an outstanding
dramatic sense and a fresh and spontaneous inspiration, along with the
assimilation of styles present in the comic operas of the time,
particularly those of the farsa. His son Michele Puccini (1813-1864) was
a teacher and composer.
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