Abstract:As with Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Venetian Don Giovanni, modern interest in Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher's Stone) is largely due to the existence of a related opera by Mozart. The cases are, howev...As with Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Venetian Don Giovanni, modern interest in Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher's Stone) is largely due to the existence of a related opera by Mozart. The cases are, however, entirely different. Da Ponte used the one-act libretto of Gazzaniga's opera, by Giovanni Bertati, as his chief source for Mozart's Don Giovanni, expanding it into a full-length opera. Die Zauberflöte (1791) was written for Emanuel Schikaneder's company at the Theater auf der Wieden, which had presented Der Stein der Weisen a year earlier, with considerable success. Der Stein der Weisen was a product of musical collaboration, typical for that theatre. A score now in Hamburg, emanating from 1790s Vienna, is in a number of copyists’ hands (identified by Dexter Edge); this source was brought to public attention by David Buch, because in it most of the opera is attributed to one of five composers, including...Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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