Sources
71. E l'uccellino. Ninna-nanna

71.B.1

Private property of the Lippi Francesconi family, Lucca

Score of the complete composition, 2 pages, 2° with 12 staves (1 page of text, 1 page of music); a photograph of the manuscript is preserved in I-Mr (N.II.4).
On the text page, Puccini wrote: “Ninna-Nanna / versi di R. Fucini / musica di GPuccini”, followed by the lyrics of the song. At the top of the page bearing the music he wrote: “Ninna-Nanna Parole di R. Fucini / Musica di G. Puccini”, at the bottom: “Per il bimbino Lippi / Giacomo Puccini / Torre del Lago / 25.2.99.”

This is a very neat fair copy. Puccini may have had the photograph of the manuscript now in I-Mr  made himself from the original he presented to the Lippi family. In any event, it is not a modern photocopy. According to a notice inserted with the photograph, it existed in I-Mr  in October 1970, but had probably been there for decades.

71.D.1

71.E.1

E l’uccellino. Ninna-Nanna. Parole di R. Fucini.
The first page of music bears the dedication “Al bimbino Memmo Lippi”.
Copyright 1899.
Ricordi, Milan etc., 1899.
PN 102625, 3 pages, 4°.

According to MRL, production of this edition began on 5 June 1899; it was mentioned for the first time in the supplement to Ricordi’s Catalogo generale, included in the Gazetta musicale of 19 October 1899 and publicly announced in the Gazzetta musicale of 8 February 1900 (advertisements p. 7).

Registered at the Prefettura di Milano on 20 October 1899 (I-Rsc B.924.7).

Apart from details in the expression marks, the printed edition differs from 71.B.1 (and probably also from 71.B.2) in that the fourth and third bar before the end are not repeated. Puccini probably made those corrections before the song was printed.