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Re: "Chinese" Music
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:50:01 -0800
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Tom Connor ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>What year was Turandot composed?  Pucini was the composer. That is
>certainly a very famous one.

He died leaving it incomplete in 1924.

When people ask for my favourite version of Turandot, I always reply
"Busoni".  Who oddly enough also died in 19243, leaving *his* final,
greatest opera Dr.  Faustus, unfinished.

Deryk Barker
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