Mozart and Salieri
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| Title: | Mozart and Salieri |
| Original title: |
Моцарт и Сальери (Mozart i Saljeri) |
Alexandre Benois : scene from the first picture |
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| Shape: | Opera in one act and two scenes |
| Original language: | Russian |
| Music: | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Libretto : | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Literary source: | Alexander Pushkin |
| Premiere: | December 7, 1898 |
| Place of premiere: | Moscow Private Theater (Театр Винтера) |
| Playing time: | about 40 minutes |
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Mozart und Salieri ( Russian Моцарт и Сальери , Mozart i Saljeri ) is an opera in one act and two scenes with the music of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , who also wrote the libretto based on the verse drama of the same name by Alexander Pushkin (1830). The premiere took place on December 7, 1898 at a Moscow private theater (Театр Винтера).
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The plot adheres to the legend, Antonio Salieri had Mozart poisoned because he had recognized the genius of Mozart and saw that his own music this quality would not be able to achieve. Rimsky-Korsakov interwoven themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni and his Requiem in his score .
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : flute , oboe (also English horn ), clarinet , bassoon
- Brass : two horns
- Timpani
- Strings
- Incidental music: piano
literature
- Sigrid Neef (with Hermann Neef ): Handbook of Russian and Soviet opera . Henschelverlag Art and Society. GDR-Berlin, 1985. ISBN 3362002579
Web links
- Mozart and Salieri, Op.48 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Discography on Mozart and Salieri at Operadis
- Libretto (transcribed in Russian and Spanish) on kareol.es
- Pushkin's verse drama in English translation by Alec Vagapov on samlib.ru
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele Brandstetter : Mozart i Saljeri. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater. Volume 5: Works. Piccinni - Spontini. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02415-7 , p. 269.
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