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  1. Sep 1, 2015 · Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from the man himself and put into context the diagnosis and treatment of laryngeal cancer ...

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  2. Jun 6, 2023 · Composing what would be his last opera, Giacomo Puccini was struggling to humanize Turandot, daughter of the Emperor and a woman of mesmerizing beauty. Early in the opera, she had cruelly...

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  3. Feb 3, 2022 · Puccini had been diagnosed with a cancer in his throat and only two clinics in Europe at the time had the suitable equipment for treating malignant growths: Berlin and Bruxelles. The specialists who had diagnosed Giacomo Puccini’s cancer in Italy knew the Brussels doctors who had also trained in Italy and had the advantage of speaking Italian.

    • Maria Laura Franciosi
  4. The trip, unhappily, was not simply for the pleasure of visiting the city: he had been diagnosed with acute throat cancer and Puccini’s doctors had recommended experimental radium therapy with Dr Leroux of Brussels.

  5. Jun 11, 2022 · Hidden Belgium: The house where Puccini died. Saturday, 11 June 2022. The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was 65 years old when he arrived in Brussels accompanied by his son Antonio. He had come to a specialised private clinic in Ixelles for an operation to treat throat cancer.

  6. Nov 29, 2012 · The Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini, died in Brussels on 29 November 1924. When news of Puccini’s death reached Rome, a performance of ‘La boheme’ was stopped, as the orchestra abruptly shifted key to play Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ to a shocked audience.

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  8. May 28, 2024 · Diagnosed with cancer of the larynx after years of battling a persistent sore throat, he traveled to a specialized clinic in Brussels for pioneering radiotherapy treatment. He succumbed to his illness just days after the procedure, passing away on November 29, 1924.

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