Mozart on the trip to Prague

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Mozart on the trip to Prague is an artist novella by Eduard Mörike , which ties in with the great music-historical figure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and reports on a completely fictitious incident. A day in Mozart's life in autumn 1787 is depicted.

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The composer and his wife Konstanze are on their way from Vienna to Prague , where the world premiere of his new opera Don Juan is to take place. While resting in the country near the castle of Count von Schinzberg, Mozart strolls through the castle park and, lost in thought, plucks an orange from the beautiful bitter orange tree in the park, where he is surprised by the count's gardener. The argument ends with Mozart writing to the countess and being invited to the castle. There the Count's couple is just celebrating the engagement of their niece Eugenie. Mozart and his wife fit in emotionally with the cultivated circle and finally the celebrated maestro plays for the cheerful group from the almost finished opera. In Eugenie, however, the enthusiastically received music evokes the premonition of the imminent death of Mozart: “She was so certain, so very certain that this man would devour himself quickly and inexorably in his own ardor, that he was only a fleeting phenomenon on earth because she really couldn't stand the abundance it would give off. ”The next day, Mozart and Konstanze, who had been given a carriage by the Count, travel on towards Prague. The novella closes with the famous Mörike poem Think it, o soul! , in which Eugenia's premonition of death is, so to speak, prophetic confirmation, since it, presented as a Bohemian folk song, happens to come into his hand when clearing up the notes.

Emergence

The novella first appeared in the Morgenblatt für educated estates , July and August 1855, nos. 30–33, the book edition then in November 1855, dated 1856. Mörike wrote it on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was the key experience that prompted Mörike to write the literary work. The opera reminded him of his brother August, who died a few days after visiting the opera. From 1852 Mörike worked on his long-planned Mozart novella. In the middle of 1855 he completed it.

The poem Think it, oh soul! , with which the novella ends, appeared for the first time in a previous version , headed with Grave Thoughts , in the first year of the women's newspaper for housework, female work and fashions with many sample and fashion sheets and the entertainment sheet Salon , 1852.

The novella is considered to be the "most famous artist novella of the 19th century". Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz included them in the Deutsche Novellenschatz they published .

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Secondary literature

  • Wolfgang Braungart : Eduard Mörike: Mozart on the trip to Prague . Economy - melancholy - interpretation and discussion. In: Stories and short stories of the 19th century. Volume 2, Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, pp. 133-202 [the list "Bibliography" includes 29 articles from the research literature]. ( ISBN 3-15-008414-8 )
  • Albrecht Goes , With Mörike and Mozart. Studies from fifty years , 3rd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt 1999.
  • Kindler's Literature Lexicon . Edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold. 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vols. Stuttgart: Metzler 2009, vol. 11, pp. 492–493 [article on Mozart on the trip to Prague by the editors of the lexicon.] ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8

Movie

Mörike's novella was filmed freely in 1940 by Leopold Hainisch under the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik .

radio play

In 1968, Deutsche Grammophon published a radio play adaptation in which Mathias Wieman and Helmuth Lohner participated, among others .

watch TV

In 1974 the Italian television Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana broadcast a television film from Mörike's novella, which was directed by Stefano Roncoroni .

Web links

Wikisource: Mozart on a journey to Prague  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Mörike, Complete Works, Volume 1, 5th Edition, Zurich, Artemis & Winkler, 1997, pp. 620f.
  2. ↑ Albrecht Goes, Certainly is uncertain , in: Ders., With Mörike and Mozart. Studies from fifty years , 3rd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt 1999, p. 51. There Goes interprets the differences between the first and last version of the poem precisely and profoundly.
  3. ^ H. Koopmann in: E. Mörike, Complete Works , Volume 1, 5th Edition, Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1997, p. 1055.
  4. ↑ German Novell Treasure . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz, Volume 4, Munich undated, pp. 263–362.
  5. ↑ A little night music in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ↑ A little night music ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at film.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film.at
  7. ↑ Mozart in viaggio verso Praga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ↑ Mozart in viaggio verso Praga at Mymovies.it (Italian)