La Flûte Enchantée, Opéra Maçonnique: Essai D'explication Du Livret Et de la MusiqueA. A. Knopf, 1971 - 336 Seiten Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is universally recognized as a great masterpiece--and almost as universally accused of suffering from an incomprehensible, if not silly, libretto. The author demonstrates (with myriad examples from both the libretto and the music) that, far from making nonsense, the opera is crowded with the most profound meanings. Having demonstrated the inconsistency of the legend according to which the "stupidity" of the plot resulted from a midstream change of plan, he displays the coherence of the opera, uncovers the interrelated hidden significance of its characters and situations, and relates them all to the great cosmic myths of the esoteric tradition from which they emanate. Under the illumination so engagingly supplied by the author, The Magic Flute emerges as it really is: a rigorously constructed theater piece in which Mozart's wonderful music and the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder (and others) fulfill and clarify one another. This is constructive scholarship at its most readable best--in a book that is alive with the atmosphere of eighteenth-century Vienna and with fascinating men and women, from sages and royal personages to grimy scoundrels, who supply many curious sidelights on politics, music, literature, religion, and freemasonry. |
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... comic opera , and he had put that away with childish things . " Reading the original letter suffices to see that this was not at all the reason . Mozart refused to compose a comic opera for which no performance was guaranteed , and was ...
... comic opera , and he had put that away with childish things . " Reading the original letter suffices to see that this was not at all the reason . Mozart refused to compose a comic opera for which no performance was guaranteed , and was ...
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... comic scene balances the " serious " sequence just com- pleted : Tamino has received his magic instrument , and one is needed for the comic character . It cannot be one of the " no- ble " instruments of the orchestra : the glockenspiel ...
... comic scene balances the " serious " sequence just com- pleted : Tamino has received his magic instrument , and one is needed for the comic character . It cannot be one of the " no- ble " instruments of the orchestra : the glockenspiel ...
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... comic tone of the scene despite its serious meaning . To a question by him , the Queen replies by confirming her promise to him regarding Pamina , and the Ladies serve as witnesses to her oath . At her words " es ist mein Wille " ( it ...
... comic tone of the scene despite its serious meaning . To a question by him , the Queen replies by confirming her promise to him regarding Pamina , and the Ladies serve as witnesses to her oath . At her words " es ist mein Wille " ( it ...
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