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63. Sole e amore

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63.B.1

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1 page, 2° (?), with 28 staves (only 19 of which were used), comprising 36 bars with autograph numbering 3-38.

In 1906 Puccini gave this manuscript to his friend, the composer Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916), with the following dedication at the end of the music: “al mio carissimo F. P. Tosti / questo germe primo [this first embryo] / di Bohème / Milano G. Puccini / 1. aprile [1]906” (see 63.D.1). According to Paolone 1969, Tosti subsequently gave this manuscript to an anonymous pupil.
The manuscript represents the finished composition, since it is nearly void of corrections. However, the first two bars for the piano are lacking and there is a different vocal line in bars 22/23 (bars 24/25 in 63.E.1).

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63.D.1

Copied source Portion Bibliographic reference Page number
63.B.1 Conti 1939

p. 811.

63.D.2

Copied source Portion Bibliographic reference Page number
63.E.1 Gatti 1944

after p. 20.

63.E.1

First edition: Supplement to the periodical Paganini. Periodico Artistico-Musicale, anno II, no. 23 (15 December 1888).

For the changes in comparison with the autograph see 63.B.1 and NOTES.

Copies
I-Mc

B.25.h.222/39
I-Mc

Canto e Pf. 43/8 (photocopy)

63.E.2

Kaye 1987, pp. 58-59.

Based on 63.E.1 as well as on 63.D.1.

63.E.3

In Canti. Edited by Riccardo Pecci.
Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 2010.
PN CV 05.301, pp. 46-47.

63.E.3a

Critical edition:
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. 24-25.

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