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Cabals and Satires

Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna

Av Ian Woodfield

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When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press correspondents to write slanted notices. It was in this fraught atmosphere that Mozart collaborated with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte on his three mature Italian comedies--Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. In Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna, Ian Woodfield brings the fascinating dynamics of this inter-troupe contest into focus. He reveals how Mozart, while not immune from the infighting, was able to weather satirical attacks, successfully negotiate the unpredictable twists and turns of theatre politics during the lean years of the Austro-Turkish War, and seal his reputation with a revival of Figaro in 1789 as a Habsburg festive work. Mozart's deft navigation of the turbulent political waters of this period left him well placed to benefit from the revival of the commercial stage in Vienna--the most enduring musical consequence of the war years.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-12-20
  • Mått: 236 x 163 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 612 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190692636
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Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at Queen's University Belfast, and has specialized in Mozart's operas for the last sixteen years. He published a monograph with OUP in 2000 entitled Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late 18th-Century Anglo-Indian Society.

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Woodfield (historical musicology, Queen's Univ., Belfast) deftly navigates the voluminous archival and periodical documentation on this hitherto neglected subject. He shows the rivalry to be no less fraught than the better-known and publicly waged Querelle des Bouffons between devotees of French opera and Italian opera that occurred in Paris in the 1750s. Although it is a mainstay of opera history that the musical genre is inextricably linked with politics (given the expense of production that almost always needs royal patronage and/or upper-class subventions), very few books have shown how closely aesthetic tastes are tied to specific political events (in this case, the Austro-Turkish War of 1788-91 and its aftermath). Particularly interesting is the discussion of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's opera Die Hochzeit des Figaro, a work that was contemporaneous with and rival to Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro. Summing up: Highly recommended

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