3 Minuets (1884, rev. 1898)

Composer: PUCCINI, Giacomo
  • Puccini composed his three minuets for string quartet in 1884.
  • Puccini used material from this set for his opening theme in Manon Lescaut (which premiered in 1893). The archaic minuet form helps portray the period of the opera (18th-Century France).
  • Puccini revised  the 1st and 3rd minuets for publication in Paris in 1898.

Cut IDs

43828, 43830