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MOZART,
Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Le
nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Facsimile of the
Autograph Score, Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Kraków (Mus. ms. autogr. W.A.
Mozart 492) . Introductory Essay by Norbert Miller; Musicological
Introduction by Dexter Edge
[Marriage
of Figaro, K.492]
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| Mozart
Operas in Facsimile, 3. Los Altos,
2007.
Oblong, 4°, 3 vols, 744 pp. Full-color
reproduction of the autograph score completed in the spring of 1786. Le nozze di Figaro is the first in
the great triology of Italian operas that Mozart produced together with
the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. It is based on Beaumarchais'
politically incendiary play Le
mariage de Figaro, written in 1781 and first performed in 1784.
Mozart's opera is held by many to be one of the greatest operas of all
time, and is notable for its sublime yet profoundly human portrayal of
love, jealousy, infidelity, and forgivness. Figaro has never fallen out of the
operatic repertoire; in the 19th century it was perhaps second in
popularity only to Don Giovanni
among Mozart's Italian operas, and it is now one of the most frequently
performed of all his operas. The discovery in the early 1990s of the
original orchestral parts and the working score of the opera from its
first production in Vienna in 1786 has shed much new light on the early
history of the opera; these sources show that the opera underwent
considerable revision in rehearsal and during the first run of
performances; these revisions, not reflected in Mozart's autograph, are
all documented in Dexter Edge's commentary. This facsimile edition
reunites the first two
acts preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the third and
fourth acts in possession of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Krakow.
Besides reproducing the composer's fair copy score, the edition
provides all pertinent sketches and drafts, as well as passages from
copyists mss that supplement the autograph and which reflect its
current form. Bibliophile edition, in
three
volumes, bound in dark
brown quarter leather with beige linen boards. $200
(adapted from Dexter Edges' text)
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