Solo voices, choir, orchestra (4 Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Tenor Voice Solo, Mixed c...(+)
Solo voices, choir,
orchestra (4 Soprano
Voice Solo, 2 Tenor Voice
Solo, Mixed choir, 2 Fl,
2 Ob, 2 bassoon, 2 Hn, 2
Trp, timpani, harpisc.,
Str)
SKU:
BA.BA04590-01
Dramma per musica in
three Acts. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by
Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell.
This edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Edition in 2
volumes. Complete
edition, Score. K. 135.
Duration 4 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA04590_01. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA04590-01).
ISBN
9790006451296. 33 x 26 cm
inches. Text Language:
Italian. Text: Giovanni
de Gamerra.
On 13
December 1769 Leopold
Mozart and his son
Wolfgang set out on their
first tour of Italy. It
was not until 28 March
1771 that they finally
returned to Salzburg. The
trip brought the young
composer two commissions
for opere serie. In March
1770 he was commissioned
to write Mitridate, K.87
(74a), for the 1770-71
Carneval season at the
Regio Ducal Teatro in
Milan. Mozart started
work on the opera in
Bologna on 29 September
1770, and the premiere
duly took place on the
Feast of St. Stephen (26
December) in 1770. The
second, Lucio Silla (K.
135), again commissioned
for the 1771-72 Carneval
season in Milan,
doubtless resulted from
the success of Mitridate.
News of the commission
reached the Mozarts in
March 1771 in Verona,
where they had stopped on
their return to Salzburg.
(At roughly the same time
Wolfgang received an
invitation from Vienna to
supply a serenata
teatrale for the wedding
of Archduke Ferdinand,
the third son of Maria
Theresia, scheduled to
take place in Milan in
October 1771. This
invitation ultimately
resulted in Ascanio in
Alba, K. 111.)
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