The Marriage of Figaro K. 492
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By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher:
Bärenreiter
Genre:
Opera, Classical
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra (Solo: Vocal & Piano)
Piano reduction
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Premièred at the Vienna Hoftheater on 1 May 1786, Wolfang Amadeus
Mozart’s and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Le nozze di Figaro may be safely
regarded as one of the greatest operatic successes of all times. Yet its
success was not entirely due to Mozart’s music: on the contrary,
because of the extraordinary demands it placed on the orchestra
(especially the woodwinds), the music even posed an obstacle to the
work’s spread outside the German-speaking countries. At least equally
responsible for the opera’s success was the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte,
who managed to transform a topical and socio-critical stage play into
an opera libretto as effective as it is amusing.
This vocal score
is based on Ludwig Finscher’s 1973 edition of ‘Le nozze di Figaro’
published in the ‘New Mozart Edition’ and the critical commentary by
Ulrich Leisinger published in 2007.
Many of the sources for
Mozart’s first opera from the Lorenzo Da Ponte trilogy only became
available to scholars again after the ‘New Mozart Edition volume was
published. These include the autograph scores of acts 3 and 4, now held
at the Biblioteka Jagiello ka in Kraków, significant portions of the
original sets of parts and acts 2 to 4 of the conductor’s copy from the
first performance of 1786.
These original sources, now available again, offer compelling solutions to several previously unresolved questions.
Songlist (8)
- Vorwort / Preface
- Verzeichnis der Szenen / Index of Scenes
- Sinfonia
- Atto primo / Erster Akt
- Atto secondo / Zweiter Akt
- Atto terzo / Dritter Akt
- Atto quarto / Vierter Akt
- Anhang / Appendix
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Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (,baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
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