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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Woodfield, Ian. Cabals and satires. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 (DLC) 2018010821 (OCoLC)1028588860 |
Named Person: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Woodfield |
ISBN: | 9780190692667 0190692669 9780190692643 0190692642 |
OCLC Number: | 1059577086 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction; 1. Intertroupe Rivalries: The Reception of Figaro; 2. Dynastic Alliances: The Genesis of Don Giovanni; 3. Operatic Satire: Dittersdorf's Figaro; 4. In Time of War: The Vienna Don Giovanni; 5. Italian Opera Reprieved: L'ape musicale; 6. Da Ponte as Impresario: The Revival of Figaro; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Responsibility: | Ian Woodfield. |
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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 theexpense 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 discussionof 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 * CHOICE * digging deep into Woodfield's text will reap significant benefits for the scholar already familiar with opera in Vienna in the 1780s and anxious to replace the convenient fictions with something closer to how things really were. * Tim Carter, Revue de musicologie * If you love Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and his other late operas, you'll want to read Ian Woodfield's new book, Cabals and Satires. Professor Woodfield has discovered a treasure trove of new documents related to the early reception of Mozart's operas for Vienna, and synthesizes the new, and at times contradictory, evidence in a thoroughly engaging way. Now we know where Mozart stood in relation to his contemporaries and rivals during his lifetime. * Paul Corneilson, managing editor of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works * Cabals and Satires is a remarkable achievement both for its new discoveries and for its profoundly original conception of a neglected topic: operatic rivalry in Vienna at the time of Figaro. Focusing on the head-to-head competition between the German and Italian troupes created by the reinstatement of the Singspiel troupe in 1786, Woodfield explores the larger culture of rivalry it fostered among composers, librettists, singers, individual operas,and theaters (court vs. suburban). This book will forever change our understanding of operatic culture in Mozart's Vienna. * Jessica Waldoff, author of Recognition in Mozart's Operas (OUP, 2006) * Read more...


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