By his seventeenth year he had begun writing small compositions.
This time he made modest progress, becoming a choirboy at San Martino and playing the organ there from the age of 14. His mother, however, was convinced of his abilities and procured him a tutor at the Conservatorio Musici. Instead he was a lazy, shiftless boy, poor at schoolwork and apt to play truant. Contrary to the monotonous litany of childhood musical prodigies which litter history, Giacomo showed no early interest in music, although everyone in Lucca expected him to. Giacomo was the fifth child of Michele and Albina Puccini, but his father died in 1864 when Giacomo was nearly five years old. Each generation composed and played the organ for San Martino Cathedral in Lucca. Giacomo Puccini (Decem– November 29, 1924) was a native of Lucca, born into a family which since the arrival there of a Giacomo Puccini in the 1730s had been involved in the music of the ancient town for five generations. There is little doubt today that of all operatic music, Puccini's is the most universally known more people know the famous arias from La Bohème, Madame Butterfly and Turandot than any others, with the single possible exception of those from Carmen – a remarkable achievement considering Puccini's early artistic struggles.
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