DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail--the Abduction from the Seraglio-- was one of Mozart's first operatic hits, and received performances all over Europe, even if the emperor did think it contained too many notes. Too many tenors is closer to the mark (the male roles include two tenors, one bass, and one character who only speaks), but this singspiel is a bright and bubbly work, endearing in its comic scenes and impressive in its serious moments. This score is one of Dover's reprints of other publishers. That means that it's not the most up-to-date edition available, that the words appear in German only, and that it's not as suitable for singers to use as a plain piano- vocal score would be. But this is a reasonably priced version that gives the student or enthusiast the opportunity to check out just how Mozart achieved that great "Turkish" instrumental color.

Genres: Music, Classics

Paperback

First published March 1, 1985

About the author

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, the Austrian composer, toured Europe with his son, child prodigy, noted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who gracefully and imaginatively refined the classical style with symphonies, concertos, operas, Masses, sonatas, and chambers among his 626 numbered works.

The comic plays of French writer Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to operas.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart prolifically influenced the era. Many persons acknowledged this pinnacle of piano and choral music. His popularity most endures.

Mozart showed earliest ability. From the age of five years in 1761 already competently on keyboard and violin performed before royalty. At seventeen years in 1773, a court musician in Salzburg engaged him, who restlessly traveled always abundantly in search of a better position.

Mozard visited Vienna in 1781; Salzburg dismissed his position, and he chose to stay in the capital and achieved fame but little financial security over the rest of life. The final years in Vienna yielded his many best-known Requiem . People much mythologized the circumstances of his early death. Constanze Mozart, his wife, two sons survived him.

Mozart always learned voraciously and developed a brilliance and maturity that encompassed the light alongside the dark and passionate; a vision of humanity, "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute," informed the whole. He profoundly influenced all subsequent western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on his own early in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Franz Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."

Reviews

[Fölix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh, ich habs nur gelesen, weil ich Mozart mag. Die Opern auf italienisch sind besser.

[Zon · Rating 3 out of 5]

c’était très honnêtement plus amusant à lire que ce que je pensais, j’ai passé un plutôt bon moment je crois, c’était parfois drôle, bref, j’ai plutôt apprécié, mais j’ai l’impression que c’est une toute autre expérience de le lire que de le voir / entendre, j’ai complètement mis de côté le côté opéra dans cette lecture (et c’est ça que j’ai apprécié)

et bravo Blonde la misandre

[Jaehoon · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Eleonore · Rating 3 out of 5]

Die Bewertung bezieht sich lediglich auf den Text. Mit Mozarts Musik werden ohne Frage 5 Sterne draus.