Giacomo Puccini – “Quartetto in D” per archi

Abstract

Giacomo Puccini’s works for a string quartet are three minutes, the Crisantemi elegy, and the String Quartet in D Major, which is the only complete piece we have. This work has four parts and was composed between 1881 and 1883 when Puccini was studying at Milan Conservatory. This quartet was first published in its complete version by the Italian publishing house Casa Ricordi. All four parts of the Quartet were discovered in different places, either as manuscripts or as transcriptions for other chamber works made by his younger brother, Michele Puccini. The fact that all these parts were put together in one piece has been subjected to thorough research, of which Dieter Schickling is the most important. In his volume about Puccini, The works of Giacomo Puccini. In a complete catalog, he describes all the composer’s manuscripts in detail.