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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
Description
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Ein Singspiel in drey Aufzügen, nach Bretznern frey bearbeitet, und für das k.k. Nationalhoftheater eingerichtet. In Musik gesetzt vom Herrn Mozart, Vienna: zu finden beym Logenmeister, 1782
- paper
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Condition
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Catalogue Note
Extremely rare. We have not traced a copy of this remarkable edition at auction during the last twenty-five years.
Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail - was first performed at the Vienna Burgtheater, Mozart conducting, on 16 July 1782; of all the composer's great operas it was the one most widely performed during his lifetime. Mozart's own contribution towards Gottlieb Stephanie the younger's libretto (a revision of Bretzner's Belmonte und Constanze), as revealed in his letters, was considerable. Some striking evidence for this is provided by the composer's autograph manuscript of part of the first two scenes of Act I (to b.128 of no.2) - sold in these rooms on 6 December 1991, and now in the Bibliotheca Mozartiana, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg.