CHRONOLOGY

YEAR

PERSONAL

MUSICAL

First composition for organ

Enter the Instituto Musical Pacini at Lucca

"Preludio sinfonico in A major"

"Preludio sinfonico in e minor"

"Mottetto e Credo"

Friendship with Pietro Mascagni.

Entrance examination to the Milan Conservatory

Begins his composition study with Bazzini.

"Salve delcielregina", "Messa", "Trio", "Finale" and "Composizioni varie per organo"

Second course, with Ponchielli

"Melanconía" and "Allorch'io sarò morto"

Submits "Le Villi" to the competition for a one act opera announced by Sonzogno

Première of "Capriccio sinfonico" in the Milan Conservatory

Finishes his studies.

"Scherzo",  Quarteto", "Fughe", "Adagietto", "Storiella d'amore" and "Romanza"

His mother dies

Begins living together with Elvira

Première of "Le Villi"

Performs "Capriccio sinfonico" at the fair of Turin

Ricordi commissions "Edgar"

Premiére of the new version of "Le Villi"

"Le Villi" in la Scala

Period of personal crisis

First time in Torre del Lago

First journey to Germany, hears "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" in Bayreuth 

Première of "Edgar"

First sketches for "Tosca"

First sketches for "Manon Lescaut"

"Crisantemi" for string quartet

"Tre Minuetti"

Trip to Spain

His brother Michele dies in Argentina

Travel to Hamburg

 

 

 

New version of "Edgar" 

Performance of "Edgar" in the Teatro Real in Madrid

Finishes "Manon Lescaut"

First performance of "Le Villi" in Hamburg, Stadttheater

Première of "Manon Lescaut"

First allusion to "La Bohème"

First performance of "Manon Lescaut" in Hamburg, Stadttheater

Trip to Vienna

Journey to Sicily. Meets Giovanni Verga (la Lupa) in Catania

New house in Chiatri

Première of "La Bohème"

"La Bohème" in Palermo

Composition of "Tosca"

"Scozza elettrice"

Trip to Vienna

"La Bohème" in the Teatro Costanzi, Rome

"La Bohème" in Berlin

"Cantata a Giove" and "Inno a Diana"

Travel to Paris

Visite to Sardou

"La Bohème" in Paris

Trip to Paris

Conversation with Sardou (Tosca)

Finishes "Tosca"

Travels to London

Goes to a performance of the play "Madama Butterfly"

Construction of a house in Torre del Lago

Première of "Tosca"

"Tosca" in la Scala

"Tosca" in London

"E l'uccellino" and "Avanti,Urania"

"Tosca" at the Met

Composition of "Madama Butterfly"

"Tosca" at the Dresden Opera House

"Terra e mare"

Car accident near Lucca

Travel to Paris

Convalescence

"Tosca" in the Opéra Comique

"La Bohème" in Vienna

Completes "Madama Butterfly"

Marriage to Elvira in Torre del Lago

Trip to London

Première of "Madama Butterfly" in la Scala

"Madama Butterfly" revised version in the Teatro Grande in Brescia

"Manon Lescaut" and "Tosca" in Covent Garden

Travels to Argentina with Elvira

Trip to London

Friendship with Sybil Seligman

"Requiem" in memory of Verdi

"Edgar", "Manon Lescaut", "La Bohème", "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly" in the Teatro Colón

"Madama Butterfly" at Covent Garden

First plans to compose "Trittico"

Giuseppe Giacosa dies

Trip to Paris

First trip to New York

Sees a performance of Belasco's play "The Girl of the Golden West"

Trip to London

Breaks off professional relations with Luigi Illica

"Madama Butterfly", "Manon Lescaut", "La Bohème", and "Tosca" at the Met

"Madama Butterfly" in Berlin

"Canto d'animo"

Trip to Egypt with Elvira

Meets Strauss in Naples

Creative crisis, trouble with Elvira because of Doria Manfredi

Gets away to Paris, Elvira stays with her mother

Composition of "La Fanciulla del West"

"Ditele"

Doria commits suicide

The Puccinis separate temporarily. Puccini in Rome and Elvira in Milan

Creative crisis

Trip to Paris

Elvira returns to Torre del Lago

Travels to New York with his son Antonio and Tito Ricordi

Completes "La Fanciulla del West"

Première of  "La Fanciulla del West"

"Due Pezzi"

"La Fanciulla del West" at Covent Garden

"La Fanciulla del West" in the Teatro Costanzi, Rome

Criticism of Torrefranca and Pratella

Giulio Ricordi dies

Ramelda, his sister, dies

Cure in Karlsbad

Trip to Marseilles

Trip to Berlin

Trip to Paris

Trip to Vienna

"La Fanciulla del West" in Berlin

Compostion of "Il Tabarro"

"La Fanciulla del West" in Vienna

Proposal of the Karltheater to compose the operetta "La Rondine"

Trip to Vienna

Begin of World War I 

"Tosca" in Vienna

Composition of "La Rondine"

Completes "La Rondine"

Finishes "Il Tabarro"

Composition of "Suor Angelica"

Composition of "Gianni Schicchi"

Première of "La Rondine"

Completes "Suor Angelica"

"La Rondine" in the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan

Finishes "Il Trittico"

Première of "Il Trittico" at the Met

"Morire"

Trip to London

Peace agreement

Cure in Bagni di Lucca

Luigi Illica dies

 

Première of "Il Trittico" in the Teatro Costanza, Rome

First draft of "Turandot"

"L'Inno a Roma" for chrous and orchestra (second version)

Illness, cure in Bagni di Lucca

Trip to Vienna (Puccini's month)

Fight with Toscanini

"Il Trittico" in Vienna, Staatsoper

Construction of a house in Viareggio

Move to Viareggio, Via Buonarotti

 

 

"Il Trittico" in  Hamburg

Begins "Turandot"

Travels by car to Switzerland, south of Germany and Holland

Breaks various bones, operation

His sister, Iginia, dies

Reconciliation with Toscanini

"Manon Lescaut" in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of la Scala, Milan

Travels by car with Antonio to Vienna

Meets Schönberg in Florence 

Meets Mussolini in Rome

"Manon Lescaut" in Staatsoper

First signs of his fatal disease

Pains in the throat and lost of breath

Sybil in Viareggio

Toscanini visits him at Viareggio

Is diagnosed with throat cancer

Trip to Celle

Toscanini and Forzano's last visit at Viareggio

Trip to Brussels with Antonio, Fosca and Clausetti.

Is sent to Dr. Ledoux's Institut de la Couronne

November 24th: Operation

November 28th: heart failure

November 29th: at 11:30 in the morning the maestro dies

December 1st: Mass in Brussels

Is moved to Milan

December 3rd: funeral in the Cathedral of Milan with the funeral musica of "Edgar"

Sees the performance of "Madama Butterfly" in Brussels

Leaves various pages of draft of the last two scenes of Turandot

Alfano is entrusted with the completion of "Turandot"