Anyone who hears about Giacomo Puccini today is instinctively led to think of his most famous operatic compositions. However, not everyone knows that his production during his Milanese training years, which ended in 1883, was exclusively instrumental. The pieces included in this album belong to this artistic challenge, except for Crisantemi, which came later and will contribute with its two main themes to the last act of Manon Lescaut (1893).