La clemenza di Tito (K.621) (Study Score)

Mozart La clemenza di Tito (Titus) (K.621) (Study Score)

As remarkable as the quality of the compositions themselves is the astonishing rapidity with which Mozart composed his last two great operas, “Die Zauberflöte”, K.620, and “La clemenza di Tito”, K.621: From first sketches and drafts to finished products, some 800 pages of music penned within the six-month period from April to September 1791.

Opinions of the work at the time of its première are as varied as the history of its reception.  As a “coronation” opera it initially lent itself to court festivities everywhere, and because of its aspect of “clemency”, to charitable events.  It survived in its own right as opera seria through the first two decades of the 19th century, then, but for occasional performances (these sometimes with altered or added texts), fell into obscurity for the next 150 years.

This study score of “La clemenza di Tito” is based on both Franz Giegling’s edition from 1970, which was published as part of the “New Mozart Edition”, and the critical commentary from 1994.

The autograph manuscripts of numbers 2, 11 and 12 of Mozart’s opera were considered lost after the end of World War II.  In 1979/80 these manuscript parts were made available again and are kept in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Kraków.  The evaluation of this source was published in the critical commentary from 1994 and was included in the second printing of the respective New Mozart Edition volume (1997).

The Bärenreiter study score is based on this revised edition of “La clemenza di Tito” as published in the “New Mozart Edition”.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score (BA4554-01), vocal score (BA4554-90) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP321) available for sale

- Performance material available for hire (BA4554-72)