Jacopo Puccini

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Jacopo (Giacomo) Puccini

Jacopo Puccini , also Giacomo Puccini (born January 26, 1712 in Celle dei Puccini, near Pescaglia , † May 16, 1781 in Lucca ) was an Italian composer and organist of the late baroque and pre-classical periods.

Life

Giacomo Puccini, great-great-grandfather of the opera composer Giacomo Puccini of the same name , lost his father Antonio Puccini at an early age. He and his brother Michele Puccini (1714–1782) received music lessons from 1719 in Lucca from a musician and priest who had taken care of the two musically gifted children. In 1732 Puccini completed his studies with Giuseppe Caretti (1690–1774) in Bologna , where he also maintained contact with Padre Martini and with whom he corresponded frequently in the following years. From 1739 until his death Puccini was director of the " Cappella di Palazzo di Republica " in Lucca and from 1740 organist at the Cathedral of S. Martino, as well as Kapellmeister and organist at other main churches in Lucca. A vivid picture of his diverse activities as a composer and organizer of musical events in and around Lucca emerges from his diary, the “ Libro delle musiche annue ed avventizie ” (1748–58). From 1743 Puccini was a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. His son Antonio Puccini (1747-1832) was also active as a musician and composer in Lucca. Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi is considered one of Puccini's students .

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Mostly Giacomo Puccini left behind church music, but also stage works for important occasions in the political life of the Lucca Republic . For solemn occasions he created masses and vespers with two choirs and two orchestras, only one composition of this type (from 1753) is not lost. Puccini's style is characterized by a good set of vocal parts, he used the baroque technique of contrasting choir and orchestra.

His work includes around 20 masses, 12 lamenti, around 20 motets , a requiem, the oratorio “ Il martirio di S Valentino ” (1754) and numerous other works, including the following operas:

  • Dione siracusano (1732)
  • Lucio Giunio Bruto (1735)
  • Marco Genuzio (1738)
  • Solone (1741)
  • Teramene (1744)
  • Tarquinio Collatino (1747)
  • Dione siracusano (1750)
  • Curzio cavalier romano (1753)
  • Il martirio di S. Valentino (1754)
  • Marco Manlio Capitolino (1755)
  • Tarquinio Collatino (1758)
  • Roma liberata dalla signoria de 're (1760)
  • L'Arminio (1763)
  • La confederazione dei Sabini con Roma (1765)
  • L'esilio di Marco Tullio Cicerone (1768)
  • Il Narsete (1770)
  • Marzio Coriolano (1773)
  • Roma liberata dalla congiura di Catilina (1775)
  • Marco Manlio Capitolino (1777)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/biblio/wm1993LU232.pdf