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12) Don Giovanni
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"Complete companion to the opera containing full libretto, plot summary: background information; sources; performance; history; biography of composer and librettist; musical themes."
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Star Bright Books
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A retelling, based on Mozart's opera, of how Prince Tamino strives to pass three tests set by the ruler of the Kingdom of Light in order to overcome the evil power of the Queen of the Night and win the hand of her daughter, the beautiful Pamina. Includes ideas for creating one's own "Mozart magic."
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2005
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Mozart's beloved comic romp, reprinted from a late (C. F. Peters, 1941) but beautifully engraved and highly regarded edition, which preserves Mozart's autograph manuscript and early translations of the libretto and includes passages that are often cut in other editions.
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1965
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Mozart's adult life was an almost unbroken succession of artistic triumphs and personal disappointments. This collection of excerpts from his letters and from other writings offers a unique opportunity for firsthand insights into the great composer's life and personality. In his own words (as compiled by Friedrich Kerst and translated into English by Henry Edward Krehbiel), Mozart communicates his optimisms and anticipations, his recurrent hopes for...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1972]
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What was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart really like? Readers of his letters will find a composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music, and the world around him. This collection of 140 letters spans Mozart's life from his youth through his journeys through Paris. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart make wonderful reading for anyone who has ever loved a work by the composer, from the deceptively simple "Eine...
