Constructing Le nozze di Figaro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4409117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Heartz (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-98 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrma/112.1.77 |
| OpenAlex | W2016132646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Lorenzo Da Ponte is our main witness as to how he and Mozart put together their three operas. His memoirs, first published in 1823, mystify the topic more than they illuminate it. Some additional light is shed by an earlier publication entitled An Extract from the Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, with the history of several dramas written by him, and among others, II Figaro, II Don Giovanni e La Scuola degh Amanti set to music by Mozart. Whoever translated this from Da Ponte's original Italian worked from a text different in many details from what was published four years later as the Memorie. The well-known passage about how the poet must rack his brains in order to invent situations for the buffo finales will be familiar to most readers from its version in the memoirs
Art · Art history · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · MOZART · Opera · Order (exchange) · Performance art · Witness · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |