Abstract:Abstract Mozart had developed firm ideas about opera long before his collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte. The perennial controversy resurfaced during the second half of the eighteenth century between ...Abstract Mozart had developed firm ideas about opera long before his collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte. The perennial controversy resurfaced during the second half of the eighteenth century between those who asserted the primacy of music in opera, and traditionalists who valued the poetry of the libretto most highly. After decades during which a composer’s highest ambition was to set one of Metastasio’s sanctified texts, musicians were beginning to recognize the possibility of a more flexible operatic art. Mozart identified with this reforming force, and was in no doubt that the music came first:Read More
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-09-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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