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Puccini - piano & films: Piccolo Valse - Riccardo Caramella, piano

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Piccolo Valse (1894)* Riccardo Caramella, piano (Ivrea, 1998, First World Recording) Piccolo valzer (later Musetta's Waltz in La Bohème) from CD "Piano & Songs" (2008) MU 142 A recently rediscovered piece which was originally published in Armi ed Arte, Rivista Militare, Letteraria e Sportiva (Arms and Arts - Military, Literary and Sporting Review). The King of Italy invited the great musician to write the piece for the launch of the battleship "Re Umberto". It was just a handful of notes which he dashed down at Torre del Lago on 9th September 1894 and then forgot. Puccini did not want to waste any time thinking about it; he had plenty of other things on his mind: hunting geese, chasing after women and worrying about the spare parts that still hadn't arrived from America for his beloved bicycle, "Mary". Two years passed and then he set about writing La Bohème. He must have remembered those notes for he took them up again, adjusted them, coloured them and reshaped them: the result is one of the most beautiful moments in the opera, "Quando m'en vo soletta", better known as Musetta's Waltz. This was one of Toscanini's favourite pieces and it was he who conducted the world première of the opera at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1896. Puccini and Toscanini relationship was a stormy one, full of ups and downs. At a time when they were not on good terms, Puccini sent Toscanini a Panettone (cake at Christmas); immediately afterwards he remembered that they were not speaking to each other and sent him a telegram: "Panettone sent by mistake. Puccini". The answer arrived: "Panettone eaten by mistake. Toscanini." Shortly before he died, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini wrote to a friend: "Almighty God touched me with his little finger and said to me: Write for the theatre. Remember, only for the theatre. And I have obeyed that supreme commandment". Having accepted divine will, Puccini composed some of the most popular operas ever written, earned a few millions, gambled most of the money away at the poker table, satisfied his appetite for loose women, boats and fast cars and, most of all, exterminated the population of wild geese around his villa at Torre del Lago. This in a nutshell is the life of Puccini, who defined himself as "a mighty hunter of wild birds, opera librettos and beautiful women", and who said "Just think! If I hadn't happened to take up music I would never have managed to do anything in this world!" If you like Puccini:    • PUCCINI