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The Vienna Don Giovanni

By Ian Woodfield
Hardcover
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By Ian Woodfield
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Aspects of Don Giovanni's compositional history are uncovered and the study provides for detailed evidence with which to evaluate Da Ponte's recollections. The essential truth of his account - that the revision of the operain Vienna was an interactive process - seems to be fully borne out. A general theory of transmission is proposed, which clarifies the relationship between the fluid text produced by re-creation and the static text generated by replication.

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Music, Film & Performing ArtsMusicClassical MusicOperaClassical Period (c. 1750 - c. 1820)Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusGerman Opera