Includes all spoken dialogue
Authoritative C. F. Peters edition
for | Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra |
Musical Editions | Score |
Item no. | 153467 |
Author / Composer | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Text | Emanuel Schikaneder |
Language | german |
Scope | 240 pages; 22.9 × 30.5 cm |
Release year | 2002 |
Publisher / Producer | Dover Music Publications |
Producer No. | DP 24783-X |
ISBN | 9780486247830 |
UPC | 0800759247837 |
In May 1791, Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned The Magic Flute. In keeping with the popular level of this theater, Schikaneder himself supplied Mozart with the libretto about the rescue of a good fairy's daughter from a wicked magician by a hero armed with a magic flute. After a good deal of the music was written, the composer and librettist — both Freemasons — grafted Masonic ideals onto the plot, transforming a simple fairy tale into a moralistic allegory and a Singspiel into one of the world's greatest operas.
This handsome, moderately priced volume, reprinted directly form an authoritative edition, will enable musicians, music students, and opera lovers to gain a fuller appreciation of Mozart's mastery of operatic language, orchestral color, and dramatic expression. A helpful feature of this edition is the inclusion of all spoken dialog, usually abbreviated in other editions.