He first gained fame for the one-act Le Villi, and Giuliu Ricordi bought that work's publication rights and signed this man to a contract.  
He first gained fame for the one-act Le Villi, and Giuliu Ricordi bought that work's publication rights and signed this man to a contract.  After the failure of Edgar, he produced a successful opera based on a novel by the Abb?Pr?ost, Manon Lescaut. His final work, based on a Carlo Giozzi play and completed by Franco Altano, was the only Italian impressionist opera.  FTP, name this composer of that tale of the son of Tamerlane and a Chinese princess, Turandot.
He first gained fame for the one-act Le Villi, and Giuliu Ricordi bought that work's publication rights and signed this man to a contract.  
Giacomo Puccini