Puccini Museum - Casa natale di Giacomo Puccini
Second-floor birth apartment of a composer, with his own Steinway piano and handwritten scores on display.
This guide to the Puccini Museum in Lucca, the composer's birth apartment, opens with a warning to listen for a voice you will not hear. It traces Giacomo Puccini's birth here on the twenty-second of December 1858, into a family that had supplied Lucca Cathedral with its music director for four generations, and follows him to the Milan Conservatory on funds from Queen Margherita of Italy. Standing at the Steinway piano where he composed his unfinished opera Turandot, you'll learn how a diagnosis from doctors in Brussels changed the course of his final months. His handwritten notes from that time are on display in the cases around the room.
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