Ian Woodfield

Performing Operas for Mozart

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632420
• ISBN-10: 1316632423
• Artikelnr.: 47547878

Autorenporträt

Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at Queen's University Belfast, where he teaches courses in notation, musical instruments and early repertoire. His books include Music of the Raj (2000), Opera and Drama (2002) and Mozart's Così fan tutte: A Compositional History (2008), which received the Mozart Society of America's second Marjorie Weston Emerson Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Pasquale Bondini
2. Die Entführung aus dem Serail
3. The Italian troupe in Prague
4. The Prague Figaro
5. The genesis of Don Giovanni
6. The première of Don Giovanni
7. The casting of Don Giovanni
8. The Leipzig Don Giovanni
9. The 1788 Prague Don Giovanni
10. Mozart's music in Leipzig
11. Josepha Duschek's Academy (22 April 1788)
12. Mozart's Academy (12 May 1789)
13. Guardasoni in Warsaw
14. The première of La clemenza di Tito
15. The Leipzig reception of the Da Ponte operas (1792-4)
16. Guardasoni diversifies
Conclusion
Bibliography.