La finta semplice (K.51) (Full Score, hardback)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Mozart La finta semplice (K.51) (Full Score, hardback)
Opera buffa in 3 Acts

During the Mozart family’s second stay in Vienna, from 15 September 1767 to the end of December 1768, Wolfgang, as we are informed by his father’s letter of late January to early February 1768, received an opportunity to write an opera for the “Vienna stage”.  In April he embarked on his setting of La finta semplice, a “dramma giocoso” by Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), in a revised version by Marco Coltellini (1719–1777).  Although the young composer may have finished his score by July, the performance in the Austro-Hungarian capital was thwarted by intrigues centred on the key figure in Vienna’s theatrical scene at that time, Giuseppe Afflisio (1722–1788), and documented in Leopold Mozart’s letters and travelogues.  Apparently the piece was not performed until 1 May 1769, when it was given at the Little Court Theatre of the Residential Palace in Salzburg. 

La finta semplice, along with Apollo und Hyacinth, Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots and the early Mass settings, forms part of a series of works that can be characterised as early testimony to Mozart’s composing and copying activities carried out under his father’s supervision.  Within this group, his comic opera of 1768–69 must be regarded as an outstanding example, for its autograph score is far longer than those of the other works mentioned above.  Leopold Mozart, in the list of his son’s juvenilia (1768), cites its length as 558 pages in oblong format.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition

- Full score (BA4594-01) and vocal score (BA4594-90) available for sale

- Performance material (BA4594-72) available for hire

Rehm, Wolfgang
BA4594-01
9790006451388
Baerenreiter Germany

Additional Information

Classical
Mixed Voices
Italian