拍品 298
  • 298

W.A. MOZART, COSÌ FAN' TUTTE, FIRST EDITION OF THE VOCAL SCORE, 3 VOLUMES IN ONE. LEIPZIG: BREITKOPF, 1794

估價
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Così fan tutte: o sia la scuola degli amanti...Weibertreue oder Die Mädchen sind von Flandern...Im Klavierauszuge von Siegfried Schmiedt. [KV 588], Leipzig: in der Breitkopfischen Musikhandlung, [1794].
FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes in one, 78, 80 and 82 pages, oblong 4to (c.25.5 x 30cm), type-set music, cast list in volume 3, early nineteenth-century brown calf-backed marbled boards, red-gilt title-label to spine, lacking engraved memorial frontispiece, 2 leaves from first volume (pp 41-44) supplied in early (perhaps contemporary) manuscript, some browning, upper margins trimmed, occasionally affecting paginations

出版

Haberkamp, pp.333-334; Hirsch, iv 166.

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

First edition of the piano-vocal score; the full score was not published until 1810 (also by Breitkopf & Härtel). The three-volume format does not reflect Mozart's division of his opera into two-acts. Act 2 begins half-way through volume 2: page 53. The last of Mozart’s collaborations with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, the story of two young men who disguise themselves in order to test their fiancées’ fidelity. "Da Ponte’s libretto is a marvel of witty, concise, and symmetrical dramatic construction - a standing rebuttal to those who believe that all opera librettos are fustian and second-rate stagecraft… In the music, all the conflicting strains of mockery and tenderness, of sincerity and inconstancy, are fully reconciled. Delicious in its parody, ravishing in its lyricism, Così holds laughter and sympathy in a perfect equilibrium that, in critic Joseph Kerman’s phrase, celebrates ‘the mystery of feeling itself.’” (N. Zaslaw and W. Cowdery, The Compleat Mozart: a guide to the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1990), pp.64-65).