30.A.1
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Conservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Milan
Torn fragment of a leaf, headed (in another hand): “Giacomo Puccini Fuga a 4 Voci”.
This manuscript contains the fugue subject assigned to Puccini for his final examination in the academic year 1881-82.
30.A.2
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Conservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Milan
2 pages of a double leaf, 4° oblong format (32.5 × 23.5 cm) with 12 staves comprising 41 bars, one of which is cancelled. Annotations in a different hand: “ore 5.50” and the date “1881” on the last page of the double leaf.
The music is written in the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass clefs.
This is the first part of the rough copy of the fugue, composed by Puccini for the year’s final examination (see 30.B.1).