Despite his relatively young age, Shostakovich had already completed three symphonies, two full ballets, an opera, and various other smaller works. Like several of his contemporaries, he was an excellent pianist and performed the work himself he also went on to compose many works for his instrument. Shostakovich finished his first piano concerto in 1933, when he was twenty-seven years old. The score calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings. Mozart originally included a slower middle section in the overture, but decided to take it out in the final version and not upset what commentator Herbert Glass calls “the swirling, manically jolly mood.” Le nozze di Figaro was premiered in 1786 in Vienna, and Mozart himself conducted. The overture begins softly, with many busy little notes, which annotator Marianne Williams Tobias likens to “whispers of gossip … ultimately theme which romps happily throughout the overture” as the piece takes off. But it does clearly prepare us for the opera’s tone – humorous, quick, and clever. Unlike others of its time, the sparkling overture to Figaro does not clearly reference or quote themes from the opera itself. In a letter to his father dated 1787, Mozart writes, “ Figaro – nothing is played, sung, or whistled but Figaro nobody goes to any opera but Figaro everlastingly Figaro!” Mozart completed his “Prague” Symphony quite soon after this, and then was commissioned to write Don Giovanni. The opera ran only a few times in Vienna before Mozart was forced to take Figaro to Prague, where it was far more appreciated. Mozart and Da Ponte also only had weeks to produce the opera, which must have had at least a few shaved corners – for example, the overture was finished only a couple of days before the opening show. He then had to temper and cut some of the content, thereby increasing the pace of the narrative.
Da Ponte had to get special permission to finish it after an early version of the libretto was banned. Le nozze di Figaro was not as immediately popular as the play. Figaro is all set to marry Susanna, but of course the wedding is put on pause due to various obstacles. Mozart’s opera begins somewhere in the middle, picking up where Rossini leaves off in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Because of its being placed off limits and doubtless because of its sheer cheek, it became one of the most popular works of the decade – in secret, of course.įinally, despite various efforts to quash the play, it appeared in Paris in 1784, and it was no longer possible to hide it. Only four years earlier, when Beaumarchais had completed the play and presented it to King Louis XIV, it had been deemed “detestable” and banned from all future production. The Figaro trilogy, a comedy by the French playwright, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) was the first of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s three collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and was completed in 1786. Mozart - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Jupiter! / Moz-Art à la Haydn / Musical Geniuses / Concierto de Aranjuez Jupiter!
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