puccini opera based on play by carlo gozzi

In 1904 Busoni began sketching incidental music for Gozzi's Chinese fable.

39 BV247, which included music from an unfinished adaptation of Oehlenschlager's Aladdin. He was very fond of fantastical and magical tales: his immediately preceding work was the Piano Concerto Op. Gozzi's Turandot - in one form or another - occupied Busoni at various times between the years 1904-1917.

Busoni thought that between them Schiller and Weber had ruined a masterpiece of Italian literature. It was composed in 1809 and included the earlier Overtura cinese/Chinese Overture, which he had composed on a Chinese theme in 1805. Weber wrote his Incidental music for Turandot, Op. Schiller made an adapted translation of Turandot which was published in 1802. It was originally written to be performed in the small theatre of San Samuele in Venice, and was deliberately written in the Commedia dell'arte style as a reaction to the more modern, realistic plays of Goldoni and others.

1.2 Incidental music and orchestral suiteĬomposition of the Turandot music Source and previous versionsĬarlo Gozzi's play Turandot first appeared in 1762.

Puccini opera based on play by carlo gozzi