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1. Preludio a Orchestra

Not Known

1.B.1

I-Lmp

Full score.
10 pages, 4° oblong format (32.5 × 23.5 cm) with 16 staves + 1 title page with 20 staves. 1 leaf with approximately 12 measures is missing after bar 29.
The title page in Puccini’s hand states: “Preludio a Orchestra / di / Giacomo Puccini / agosto 1876”. At the end of the last page is the autograph indication: “Giacomo Puccini Lucca adi 5 Agosto 1876 / [signature]”.
Evidently this is a fair copy, for the manuscript bears no corrections and the names of the instruments at the beginning of the score are written in professional calligraphy.

1.B.2

I-TLp

Full score.
12 pages, 4° oblong format with 16 staves + 1 title page.
Autograph title page: "Preludio a Grande Orchestra / di / Giacomo Puccini / Lucca li 5. Agosto 1876".

 

Complete fair copy. 

Not Known

1.D.1

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

Last page

 Approdo musicale 1959

p. 29

Also printed in Biagi Ravenni 2011, p. 99. 

1.D.2

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1.B.1

Cover and first page

 Biagi Ravenni 2011

pp. 98-99.

1.D.3

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1.B.1

Studi pucciniani 4 (2010)

109-122.

1.D.4

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1.B.1

ff. 3v., 4r.

 Girardi, Bernardoni and Schickling 2015

pp. XXX-XXXI.

1.E.1

Preludio sinfonico in mi minore (Partitura). A cura di Pietro Spada.
Copyright 2000.
Boccaccini & Spada, Rome, 2000.
PN BS. 1566, 14 pages, 4°.


The erroneous indications in Spada’s preface prove that this edition is not based on the autograph score 1.B.1.

1.E.2

Preludio a orchestra SC1. A cura di Michele Girardi.
Copyright 2005.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2005.
PN CV 16.204, 24 pages.

1.E.2a

Preludio a orchestra. A cura di Michele Girardi.
In Giacomo Puccini, Composizioni per Orchestra. A cura di Michele Girardi, Virgilio Bernardoni, and Dieter Schickling.
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, series Opere musicali, vol. II/1.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2015.
PN CV 56002, pp. 3-14.

Reprint of 1.E.2.

1.E.2b

Preludio a orchestra SC1. A cura di Michele Girardi.
PN CV 56002/50, 26 pages.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2024.

Reprint of 1.E.2a, with the addition of the previously missing bars derived from 1.B.2.

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