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Cosi fan Tutte in Full Score (Dover Music Scores) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Lorenzo Da Ponte is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Translated from the Italian, Cosi fan tutte means'That's how all women act'; the libretto, the last of three Lorenzo da Ponte wrote for Mozart, concerns the behavior of women, particularly the behavior of young women in the throes of romantic love. Are they fickle? Are their affections mutable? Their virtue flexible? In Cosi fan tutte, Mozartand Da Ponte answer with resounding affirmatives.In the nearly 200 years since it was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Cosi fan tutte has waxed and waned and waxed again in popularity. The music, with its richness of melody, harmony, and texture, and its perfection of form, has never been considered less than brilliant. The libretto, however, has not been as well received as evidenced by attempts in the 19th century to'improve'it, making it more possible to the overly decorous sensibilities of the Victorians.In examining the reaction of 19th-century opera goers, the noted British composer, conductor, and musicologist Spike Hughes laments,'The opera must indeed have seemed to them sadly untypical of the Divine Mozart, who not only seemed to enjoy this trivialities, not to say indecencies, of an exquisitely constructed libretto, but

Author

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Lorenzo Da Ponte

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

IT

ISBN

9780486319308

Subjects

Music, Arts