Early Career and First Operas
As something in the nature of a thesis composition for the Milan Conservatory, Puccini wrote an orchestral piece called the Capriccio sinfonica. Puccini's teachers Ponchielli and Bazzini were impressed by the work. The Capriccio sinfonica was performed at a student concert at the conservatory, and Puccini's work was favorably reviewed in a Milanese publication Perseveranza. Thus Puccini began to build a reputation as a young composer of promise in Milanese music circles.
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