Includes all spoken dialogue
Authoritative C. F. Peters edition
pour | Solistes, chœur à voix mixtes, orchestre |
Édition | Partition |
№ d’article | 153467 |
Auteur / Compositeur | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Texte | Emanuel Schikaneder |
Langue | allemand |
Dimensions | 240 pages; 22,9 × 30,5 cm |
Date de parution | 2002 |
Éditions / Producteur | Dover Music Publications |
№ de fabricant | DP 24783-X |
ISBN | 9780486247830 |
UPC | 0800759247837 |
In May 1791, Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned The Magic Flute. In keeping with the popular level of this theater, Schikaneder himself supplied Mozart with the libretto about the rescue of a good fairy's daughter from a wicked magician by a hero armed with a magic flute. After a good deal of the music was written, the composer and librettist — both Freemasons — grafted Masonic ideals onto the plot, transforming a simple fairy tale into a moralistic allegory and a Singspiel into one of the world's greatest operas.
This handsome, moderately priced volume, reprinted directly form an authoritative edition, will enable musicians, music students, and opera lovers to gain a fuller appreciation of Mozart's mastery of operatic language, orchestral color, and dramatic expression. A helpful feature of this edition is the inclusion of all spoken dialog, usually abbreviated in other editions.