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Automobile crash and near death[edit] On 25 February 1903, Puccini was seriously injured in a car crash during a nighttime journey on the road from Lucca to Torre del Lago. The car was driven by Puccini's chauffeur and was carrying Puccini, his future wife Elvira, and their son Antonio.
3 days ago · Giacomo Puccini (born December 22, 1858, Lucca, Tuscany [Italy]—died November 29, 1924, Brussels, Belgium) was an Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end.
Apr 2, 2014 · Puccini died of post-operative shock on November 29, 1924. Early Life. Giacomo Puccini was born on December 22, 1858, in Lucca, Italy, where since the 1730s his family had been tightly...
Jun 6, 2023 · Giacomo Puccini died of a heart attack in Brussels on 29 November 1924. A heavy smoker all of his life, he was undergoing treatment for throat cancer at the time. Puccini had joined the Fascist party, and the dictator Benito Mussolini delivered the funeral oration at a service in Milan's Duomo Cathedral where Toscanini conducted the ...
Puccini died on 29 November 1924, aged 65, from a heart attack caused by surgical complications. Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1924, and was completed by the composer Franco Alfano who based the last two scenes on sketches by Puccini.
May 9, 2024 · Composer Giacomo Puccini died shortly before finishing his masterpiece, leaving just musical sketches for the ending — sketches that his student Franco Alfano filled out posthumously.
Puccini died there on November 29, 1924 from complications from the treatment. News of his death reached Rome during a performance of La Bohème. The opera was immediately stopped, and the orchestra played Frédéric Chopin 's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor Funeral March for the stunned audience.
