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

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, Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. 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) Jacopo (Giacomo) Puccini (; 26 January 1712 16 May 1781) was an 18th-century Italian composer who lived and worked primarily in Lucca, Tuscany. He was the first of five generations of composers, the most famous of whom was his great-great-grandson, ...

, his son was

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, 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.

References

* ''The Puccini companion'', ed. by William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini (New York: W.W. Norton, 994(?), . * ''I Puccini: Musicisti di Lucca, Vol. 5'', dir. by Gianfranco Cosmi (Bongiovanni, GB 2349–2, 2004), Audio CD. 1772 births 1815 deaths Italian male classical composers Musicians from Lucca 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century male musicians 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century classical composers 19th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub