Domenico Puccini

Italian composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroItalian composer
PlacesItaly
wasMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Genres:Opera
Birth5 April 1772, Lucca, Italy
Death25 May 1815Lucca, Italy (aged 43 years)
Star signAries
Family
Father:Antonio Puccini
Children:Michele Puccini
The details

Biography

Domenico Vincenzo Maria Puccini (5 April 1772 – 25 May 1815) was an Italian composer, a contemporary of Muzio Clementi and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Puccini was born in Lucca into a Tuscan musical family of at least five generations: his father was Antonio Puccini, his grandfather was Giacomo Puccini (senior), his son was Michele Puccini, and his grandson was the opera composer Giacomo Puccini.

His works include a piano concerto in B and several dozen piano sonatas.

Puccini died in Lucca in 1815.

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