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GENRE |
Dramma lirico in tre atti e cinque quadri |
LIBRETTO |
Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after
versions of the Turandot legend by Carlo Gozzi
and Friedrich von Schiller |
FIRST
PERFORMED |
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 25 April 1926 |
NOTES
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Puccini did not live to see the completion
and performance of Turandot. He worked
with great speed and enthusiasm on the score
until reaching the final duet between the ice
princess and her suitor. For this scene, Puccini
struggled over four versions of the libretto and
died leaving only the briefest of musical
sketches. Many Puccini scholars have suggested,
however, that time alone was not the only
inhibiting factor for the duets
incompletion. Puccini hoped in this scene to
writeas Mosco Carner relates
something exalted and lofty and which was
to convey his message to the world: the triumph
of all-conquering love over the inhumanity of
man. After Puccinis death, Toscanini
recommended that the promising younger composer
Franco Alfano compose the music for the duet and
the final scene of the opera. Toscanini was
decidely unhappy with Alfanos solution. At
the premiere, he ended the performance at the
point where Puccini had left off composing, and
he apparently never conducted the new ending. For
a second published version, Toscanini made
several cuts in Alfanos music and added
some music of his own (drawn in part from
Puccinis notes). |
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PUBLICATION
TITLE |
Turandot |
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VERSION |
First version |
TYPE |
Italian piano and vocal score |
EDITION |
LUltimo duetto e il Finale
dellOpera sono stati completati da F.
Alfano. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di G.
Zuccoli |
PUBLISHER |
G. Ricordi & C. |
DATE |
1926 |
PLATE
NUMBER |
119772 |
RICORDI
STAMP |
3.1926 |
VOLUME |
398 pp. |
HOPKINSON
NUMBER |
12A |
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PUBLICATION
TITLE |
Turandot |
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VERSION |
First version |
TYPE |
Italian piano and vocal score |
EDITION |
Edition-de-Luxe
(limited edition of 120 copies) |
PUBLISHER |
G. Ricordi & C. |
DATE |
1926 |
PLATE
NUMBER |
119772 |
RICORDI
STAMP |
None |
VOLUME |
398 pp. |
HOPKINSON
NUMBER |
12A (a) |
GIFT
OF |
John F. Flagg |
NOTES |
This is copy no. 38 (XXXVIII) of
a limited edition of 120 copies printed on
handmade paper. The pages are bound in white
pigskin and the cover features a sunken hand-
painted portrait of Turandot by Leopold
Metlicovitz. A notice states that publication of
this limited edition was concluded on 16 April
1926. |
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PUBLICATION
TITLE |
Turandot |
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VERSION |
Second version. |
TYPE |
German piano and vocal score |
EDITION |
Ins deutsche Übertragen von A.
Brüggemann. Klavierauszug mit Singstimmen von G.
Zuccoli. |
PUBLISHER |
G. Ricordi & Co. |
DATE |
1926 |
PLATE
NUMBER |
120150 |
RICORDI
STAMP |
1.1927 |
VOLUME |
384 pp. |
HOPKINSON
NUMBER |
12B (b) (unlisted variant) |
NOTES |
The copy bears the plate number
of Hopkinson 12B (b), a German piano-vocal score,
but the pagination of 12B, and Italian
piano-vocal score. In addition, the Ricordi stamp
on this copy is three and one-half years earlier
than that on the only dated copy of 12B (b) seen
by Hopkinson. |
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PUBLICATION
TITLE |
Turandot |
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VERSION |
Full orchestral score |
TYPE |
Italian piano and vocal score |
EDITION |
folio edition, 3 vols. |
PUBLISHER |
Ricordi, Milan |
DATE |
1926 |
PLATE
NUMBER |
119761-120030 |
RICORDI
STAMP |
10.1942 |
VOLUME |
461 pp. (in three volumes,
numbered consecutively) |
HOPKINSON
NUMBER |
12C |
GIFT
OF |
John F. Flagg |
NOTES |
These scores are heavily marked
in colored pencil and were used for many Italian
performances. Each volume contains a list of
cities (representing opera companies) to which
this rental score was loaned. The number
following each city name may refer to a rental
inventory list. |
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