Sources
75. Canto d'anime (Pagina d'album)

75.A.1

I-TLp
 (

Fascicolo 12

)

1 double leaf (4 pages), with 10 staves. Pages 1-3 are blank. On p. 4, the title "Canto d’anime di Luigi Illica", with "musica di GPuccini" written below. 3 bars of music.

75.B.1

Location:

Private collection of Ferenc Kiss, Mannheim


4 pages, 4° with 10 staves.
Title: “Canto d’anime (Pagina d’album) / Versi di L. Illica.” Tempo indication: “M♩= 92 Moderato,” with the autograph signature and date at the end: “Giacomo Puccini / aprile [1]904.“

This very neat fair copy certainly served as the model for 75.E.1.
It was described as No. 288 in the catalogue of Sotheby’s auction of 1/2 December 1994.

Not Known

75.D.1

Copied source Portion Bibliographic reference Page number
75.B.1

pp. 1-2

Sotheby’s catalogue, 1/2 December 1994, p. 112.

75.E.1

Canto d’Anime. Pagina d’Album. Scritta espressamente per il Grammofono. Poesia di Luigi Illica. Musica di Giacomo Puccini.
Copyright 1904.
The Gramophone Company (Italy), Milan, 1904.
3 pages, 4°.

Registered at the Prefettura di Milano on 20 July 1904 (I-Rsc copy).

The printing was obviously done only to establish copyright, and copies were never offered for sale.

 

Copies
I-Rsc

B.610.23

 PN G.C.I.
US-Wc

M 1621.P

 PN G.C.5 I.

registered 23 December 1904

75.E.1a

Kaye 1987, pp. 107-09. Based on 75.E.1.

75.E.2

Canti. Edited by Riccardo Pecci.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2010.
PN CV 05.301, pp. 58-59.

75.E.2a

Liriche per canto e pianoforte. Edizione critica a cura di RIccardo Pecci. 
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, series Opere musicali, vol. III/3.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2025.
PN CV 56005, pp. 42-43.

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