y por q demonios no valio la mia???
me parece de lo mas interesante... un singspiel colectivo
Mozart, Henneberg, Schack, Gerl, Schikaneder:
Der Steine der Weisen (yo puse mal el nombre, es mas bien "la piedra del sabio" o "del filosofo", q "la piedra filosofal")
While scholars have long known that The Magic Flute was not the only fairy-tale opera to be produced by Emanuel Schikaneder at his Theater auf der Weiden in Vienna, they did not, until recently, have definitive evidence that Mozart himself contributed to any of the other extant works. In the summer of 1996, University of Northern Iowa musicologist David J. Buch discovered a previously unknown copy of Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher’s Stone), a collaboratively composed Singspiel with a story based on the same set of fairy-tales from which The Magic Flute was drawn, in the archives of the City and University Library of Hamburg, Germany. The manuscript had been taken to Russia by the Soviet army following World War II, and had only recently been returned to Germany.
Two other copies of the opera are known to exist, but the new find
contains the names of contributing composers above nearly every section of the work, including Mozart’s, whose name appears in connection with a comic “cat” duet, as well as over substantial sections of the second-act finale.
There is illuminating evidence, in the correspondence of Mozart’s wife Constanze, that Mozart may have participated in the composition of other parts of the opera as well. However, says Buch, “The evidence points in one direction, but that doesn’t mean it’s true. We may never know the extent of Mozart’s involvement.”
Besides having its story derived from the same source as that of The Magic Flute, The Philosopher’s Stone has other connections with Mozart’s final operatic work. All of the collaborators in the composition of …Stone (which was premiered in September of 1790) were closely associated with the development and first production of The Magic Flute, one year later. Emanuel Schikaneder (who sang the role of Lubano in …Stone) both commissioned the work and wrote its libretto; Benedikt Schack (the original Astromonte) sang the role of Tamino in its premiere; Franz Xaver Gerl (the original Eutifronte) was the first Sarastro; and J.B. Henneberg (conductor of the first performance of …Stone) also conducted the first performance of The Magic Flute.
Interesante, ah???
Grabada para
TELARC (yo quise comprarmela y no pude... y ahora no la encuentro!!!

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