Sources
32. Preludio sinfonico

Not Known

32.B.1

Full score, preserved in fragments only:

1.1 I-PSCmp (Carta X): 1 leaf, 2° (37 × 27 cm) with 20 staves. Title page only, with the autograph title: “Preludio sinfonico”, two signatures “Giacomo Puccini”, and the autograph date: “Giugno 1882” (v. blank). 

1.2 I-Li (N.IV.3): 1 double leaf, 2°(37×27cm) with 20 staves.
28 bars, of which 3 are cancelled (corresponding to bars 128-152 in 32.E.1).
See Mostra 1974, p. 15, no. 3 (= Hopkinson 1968, p. 64, old shelf mark XXXIII). 

1.3 I-PSCmp (Carta XI): 1 leaf, 2° (37 × 27 cm) with 20 staves.
9 bars from the later cut part (fig. M-4 to N+2, see NOTES).

32.B.2

I-Li
 (

N.IV.2 a-e, g-i, l-o, u, β, γ

)

Autograph parts for Ottavino (two parts), Flauti I° e 2°, Oboe I° e 2° e Corno inglese, Clarini I° e 2°, Corni Ia coppia, Corni 2a coppia, Trombe, I° e 2° Trombone, 3° Trombone e Ophicleide, Timpani, Cassa e Piatti, Violino 2°, Viola, Violoncello.

All of the parts are signed by Puccini. They bear his autograph cut of a 18-bar passage, the addition of 12 new bars, and some pencilled corrections.

32.C.1

I-Mc
 (

Manoscritti 15/12, old number 138

)

Fair copy of the full score.
40 pages (38 pages of music), 4° (30.5 × 22.5 cm) with 20 staves notated in a copyist’s hand with autograph corrections and additions. On the title page Puccini wrote: “Milano Giugno 1882”; at the end he indicated “Giacomo Puccini Luglio 1882 Milano”.

It is very likely that the copyist was Puccini’s brother Michele.
The cut marked in 32.B.2 is deleted from this copyist’s score.

32.C.2

I-Li
 (

N.IV.2 f, k, p-t, v-z, α, γ, δ, η 

)

Copyists’ instrumental parts for 1mi e 2di Fagotti, Arpa, Violino I° (five parts), Violino 2° (four parts), Viola, Violoncello e Contrabasso, Contrabasso (two parts).
Written by three different copyists; the handwriting in the two Contrabasso parts is probably that of Michele Puccini.
All of these parts also contain the cut indicated in 32.B.2.
Fellerer 1937a, p. 22, reproduced the first 8 bars of the first violins (bars 9-16 in 32.E.1).

32.D.1

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

1.1

 Lera 1995

p. 40.

32.E.1

First edition of the full score:
Preludio Sinfonico for Orchestra. Score reconstructed and edited by Pietro Spada. Copyright 1977.
Elkan-Vogel, Bryn Mawr, Pa., USA.
PN 466-00027, 36 pages, 4°.

Reproduction of a copyist’s handwriting.
This edition is only based on the instrumental parts (see 32.B.2 and 32.C.2); it does not satisfy the requirements of a critical edition.

32.E.2

Preludio sinfonico für Orchester. Herausgegeben von Johannes Wojciechowski. 
Peters, Frankfurt etc., 1988. 
PN 31575, 17 pages, 4°.

Based on 32.B.2 and 32.C.2 as well, but occasionally different from 32.E.1 in its readings.

32.E.3

First and critical editions:
Giacomo Puccini, Preludio sinfonico SC32, edited by Michele Girardi.
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, series II, Musica strumentale, vol. 1.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2009.
PN CV 16.206, 40 pages. 

32.E.3a

Giacomo Puccini, Composizioni per orchestra, edited by Michele Girardi.
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, series II, Musica strumentale, vol. 1.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2015.
PN CV 56002, xxx + xxx pages.

 

Reprint of 32.E.3.

Nota