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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791). Die Entführung aus dem Serail Oper in drey Ackten... L'enlevement du Serail. [K 384]. [Full score].. Bonn: N. Simrock. [1812]. First edition. Upright Folio. 1f. (title, verso blank), 3 - 350 pp. Engraved. [PN] 949. With text in German and French. Contemporary marbled boards, spine of green leather elaborately decorated in gilt. An exceptional clean and crisp, well-margined copy, printed on high quality paper with strong impression. Rare. Hirsch II, 639. Sonneck Orchestral Music p. 117. RISM M4246, MM4246 (a total of 3 copies in the U.S.). Köchel 8 p. 384. Haberkamp I p. 180. Hoboken 11, 141.
First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on July 16th 1782, with a libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. "The most important composition of this period [1780-1783] however, was Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the libretto of which was given to Mozart at the end of July 1781. Originally planned for September, the première was postponed until the following summer (Mozart had completed the first act in August 1781). The opera was a great success: Gluck requested an extra performance, Schikaneder's troupe mounted an independent production in September 1784 (although the aria 'Martern aller Arten' was replaced because the orchestra was incapable of performing the obbligato solos), and productions were soon mounted in cities throughout German-speaking Europe. The earliest lengthy obituary of Mozart, in the Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filarmonischen Gesellschaft of 4 January 1792, described the work as 'the pedestal upon which his fame was erected'." (Grove Online)
"The composition of this opera coincided with Mozart's marriage to Constanze Weber and his permanent settling in Vienna as a freelance composer and performer. Despite the intrigues and complications which plagued the premiere, it proved to be Mozart's most popular opera in his lifetime, partly due to the fashion for plays and operas on oriental subjects. But it was of this piece that the Emperor, according to Niemetschek (1798), made his famous comment: 'Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and vastly too many notes', to which Mozart replied 'Just as many as are necessary, your Majesty'." (Robbins Landon, "The Mozart Compendium," p. 249)
First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on July 16th 1782, with a libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. "The most important composition of this period [1780-1783] however, was Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the libretto of which was given to Mozart at the end of July 1781. Originally planned for September, the première was postponed until the following summer (Mozart had completed the first act in August 1781). The opera was a great success: Gluck requested an extra performance, Schikaneder's troupe mounted an independent production in September 1784 (although the aria 'Martern aller Arten' was replaced because the orchestra was incapable of performing the obbligato solos), and productions were soon mounted in cities throughout German-speaking Europe. The earliest lengthy obituary of Mozart, in the Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filarmonischen Gesellschaft of 4 January 1792, described the work as 'the pedestal upon which his fame was erected'." (Grove Online)
"The composition of this opera coincided with Mozart's marriage to Constanze Weber and his permanent settling in Vienna as a freelance composer and performer. Despite the intrigues and complications which plagued the premiere, it proved to be Mozart's most popular opera in his lifetime, partly due to the fashion for plays and operas on oriental subjects. But it was of this piece that the Emperor, according to Niemetschek (1798), made his famous comment: 'Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and vastly too many notes', to which Mozart replied 'Just as many as are necessary, your Majesty'." (Robbins Landon, "The Mozart Compendium," p. 249)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791). Die Entführung aus dem Serail Oper in drey Ackten... L'enlevement du Serail. [K 384]. [Full score].. Bonn: N. Simrock. [1812]. First edition. Upright Folio. 1f. (title, verso blank), 3 - 350 pp. Engraved. [PN] 949. With text in German and French. Contemporary marbled boards, spine of green leather elaborately decorated in gilt. An exceptional clean and crisp, well-margined copy, printed on high quality paper with strong impression. Rare. Hirsch II, 639. Sonneck Orchestral Music p. 117. RISM M4246, MM4246 (a total of 3 copies in the U.S.). Köchel 8 p. 384. Haberkamp I p. 180. Hoboken 11, 141.
First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on July 16th 1782, with a libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. "The most important composition of this period [1780-1783] however, was Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the libretto of which was given to Mozart at the end of July 1781. Originally planned for September, the première was postponed until the following summer (Mozart had completed the first act in August 1781). The opera was a great success: Gluck requested an extra performance, Schikaneder's troupe mounted an independent production in September 1784 (although the aria 'Martern aller Arten' was replaced because the orchestra was incapable of performing the obbligato solos), and productions were soon mounted in cities throughout German-speaking Europe. The earliest lengthy obituary of Mozart, in the Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filarmonischen Gesellschaft of 4 January 1792, described the work as 'the pedestal upon which his fame was erected'." (Grove Online)
"The composition of this opera coincided with Mozart's marriage to Constanze Weber and his permanent settling in Vienna as a freelance composer and performer. Despite the intrigues and complications which plagued the premiere, it proved to be Mozart's most popular opera in his lifetime, partly due to the fashion for plays and operas on oriental subjects. But it was of this piece that the Emperor, according to Niemetschek (1798), made his famous comment: 'Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and vastly too many notes', to which Mozart replied 'Just as many as are necessary, your Majesty'." (Robbins Landon, "The Mozart Compendium," p. 249)
First performed in Vienna at the Burgtheater on July 16th 1782, with a libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. "The most important composition of this period [1780-1783] however, was Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the libretto of which was given to Mozart at the end of July 1781. Originally planned for September, the première was postponed until the following summer (Mozart had completed the first act in August 1781). The opera was a great success: Gluck requested an extra performance, Schikaneder's troupe mounted an independent production in September 1784 (although the aria 'Martern aller Arten' was replaced because the orchestra was incapable of performing the obbligato solos), and productions were soon mounted in cities throughout German-speaking Europe. The earliest lengthy obituary of Mozart, in the Musikalische Korrespondenz der Teutschen Filarmonischen Gesellschaft of 4 January 1792, described the work as 'the pedestal upon which his fame was erected'." (Grove Online)
"The composition of this opera coincided with Mozart's marriage to Constanze Weber and his permanent settling in Vienna as a freelance composer and performer. Despite the intrigues and complications which plagued the premiere, it proved to be Mozart's most popular opera in his lifetime, partly due to the fashion for plays and operas on oriental subjects. But it was of this piece that the Emperor, according to Niemetschek (1798), made his famous comment: 'Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and vastly too many notes', to which Mozart replied 'Just as many as are necessary, your Majesty'." (Robbins Landon, "The Mozart Compendium," p. 249)