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Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
[…] in March, when the latest in a line of scandals led to dismissal from his court post of Lorenzo da Ponte, greatest of Mozart’s librettists. Recipients of such largesse as Joseph II could muster would not always find favour with Leopold II and his consort. They did, however, share an interest in opera seria; a successful setting might help secure subsequent commissions. Tito arose from the Bohemian Estates’ commission to the impresario Domenico Guardasoni and the Nostitzsches Nationaltheater in Prague to stage an opera in celebration of Leopold II’s coronation as King of Bohemia. Despite having commissioned Don Giovanni for Prague in 1787 and presented it subsequently in Leipzig and Warsaw, Guardasoni’s preference had been to engage Salieri, who, perhaps mindful that his operatic style would not please the Emperor, declined five times.[4]Guardasoni then offered Mozart 250 ducats which, given his straitened circumstances, proved ample persuasion. The 8 […]
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