Puccini, Giacomo. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE OPERA LA RONDINE, SIGNED, A PENCIL DRAFT OF THE OPENING OF ACT 2, CONTAINING MANY DIFFERENCES FROM THE FINAL VERSION signed and inscribed by Puccini in brown ink ("alla Signora Gentilissima Siga Emilia Carone[?] Giacomo Puccini 1915 Torre del Lago"), the working short score draft in pencil, titled by Puccini ("Atto 2o"), notated on three four-stave systems per page, including the violin parts, comprising the opening twenty-seven bars, marked "All[egr]o energico", containing the chorus of students, artists, drinkers, flower-girls and grisettes in the restaurant "Chez Bullier", with the words "Dove andate? che cercate?", with many heavy deletions, alterations, erasures and revisions, containing differences from the final version, the characters unnamed, except "Edoardo il vecchio" and parts for chorus ("Donne", "Uomini", "ten[ori]", "bassi"), [c.1914-1915], 4 pages, folio (c.38 x 27cms), 12-stave paper, tears to the foot of both leaves, affecting the text on the first leaf, creasing along folds The autograph manuscript of "La rondine" is lost.. No other sketches for this opera are recorded.
Puccini, Giacomo. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE OPERA LA RONDINE, SIGNED, A PENCIL DRAFT OF THE OPENING OF ACT 2, CONTAINING MANY DIFFERENCES FROM THE FINAL VERSION signed and inscribed by Puccini in brown ink ("alla Signora Gentilissima Siga Emilia Carone[?] Giacomo Puccini 1915 Torre del Lago"), the working short score draft in pencil, titled by Puccini ("Atto 2o"), notated on three four-stave systems per page, including the violin parts, comprising the opening twenty-seven bars, marked "All[egr]o energico", containing the chorus of students, artists, drinkers, flower-girls and grisettes in the restaurant "Chez Bullier", with the words "Dove andate? che cercate?", with many heavy deletions, alterations, erasures and revisions, containing differences from the final version, the characters unnamed, except "Edoardo il vecchio" and parts for chorus ("Donne", "Uomini", "ten[ori]", "bassi"), [c.1914-1915], 4 pages, folio (c.38 x 27cms), 12-stave paper, tears to the foot of both leaves, affecting the text on the first leaf, creasing along folds The autograph manuscript of "La rondine" is lost.. No other sketches for this opera are recorded.
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