The music of this opera was dictated to me by God; I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
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Giacomo Puccini
Born in Lucca, Italy, in 1858, Giacomo Puccini was the most successful Italian opera composer after Verdi. Descended from four generations of church musicians, he studied at the Milan Conservatory and created operas of unmatched melodic beauty and dramatic intensity. La boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and the unfinished Turandot are among the most frequently performed works in the entire operatic repertoire. He died in 1924, aged sixty-five.
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