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MOZART, Wolfgang
Amadeus, 1756-1791
Die
Entführung aus dem Serail K.
384. Facsimile of the Autograph Score, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin -
Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Biblioteka Jagiellońska Krakow (Mus. ms.
autogr. W.A. Mozart 384), Stanford University Library, The Juilliard
School Library. Introductory Essay by Hendrik Birus; Musicological
Introduction by Ulrich Konrad.
[Mozart Operas
in Facsimile, 2]
 beginning of
the overture (click image to see full-size version)
Mozart
Operas in Facsimile, 2. Palo Alto, 2008.
Oblong, 4°, 2 vols, 618 pp. Full-color reproduction of the
autograph score. Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Mozart's three-act
singspiel "after Bretzner", was not only his most rousing success on
the operatic stage but an event of epoch-making importance. Its success
can be put into historical context by placing it on a coordinate plane
with northern vs. southern singspiel and opéra comique vs. opera
buffa as its axes. This "teutsche oper" as Mozart referred to it on
"Turkish" subject-matter so popular at the time marked the composer's
Vienna debut as a stage composer. After its premiere on 16 July 1782
Die Entführung remained in the Burgtheater's repertoire for the
rest of the season and the next one as well. It soon spread beyond
Vienna to theaters in Austria and abroad, becoming the longest-lasting
theatrical success of Mozart's career. In working with the singspiel
material Mozart sought to strike a perfect balance in the interaction
between music and stage movement. A play of this type needs to unfold
in accordance with its own laws, yet it is one of the peculiarites of
composing for the operatic stage that composers generally provide more
music than is regarded as abolutely necessary for a theatrical
production. An examination of the autograph score shows many
cancellations in ink or red pencil and pasted slips of paper containing
fully completed parts or even entire pages of full score. In a letter
to his father dated 20 July 1782 Mozart writes: " I send herewith the
original score and two copies of the libretto. You will see that I have
cut out many passages; this is because I knew that scores here are
copied out at once so I gave free rein to my ideas and then made
alterations and cuts here and there just before sending it to be
written. The opera was performed just as you now have it". The
facsimile importantly reunites parts of the autograph now preserved in
two different libraries (acts I & III from the Biblioteka
Jagiellońsa in Kraków, and act II from the Mendelssohn Archive
of the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin). The
edition also reproduces additional autograph material as well as
sketches and drafts from both public and private collections.
Bibliophile edition, in two volumes, bound in dark brown quarter
leather with beige linen boards.Bibliophile edition, in two volumes,
bound in
dark
brown quarter leather with beige linen boards. $200
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