Classical Composer: | Puccini, Giacomo |
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Lyricist: | Adami, Giuseppe |
Work: | Morire? (arr. M. Kaye for voice and piano) |
Year Composed: | 1918 |
Instrumentation: | v, pf |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Duration: | 00:03:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Vocal |
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The song was written as a charitable contribution to a music album sold for the benefit of the Italian Red Cross during the First World War. The poem by Adami, Puccini's lifelong friend and collaborator, asks questions about life and mortality, concluding that we who are living cannot know what lies beyond death; only those on the far shores beyond this world can tell us. Deliberate arpeggios lead into a long sustained conversational line. The second subject is characterised by restrained fervour, again with echoes of the composer's tragic operatic characters. Unaccompanied declamation rises to a passionate climax. The melody was put to further use as Ruggero's entrance aria in the second version of La Rondine (1917, rev. 1920).
Writer: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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