Manfred Hermann Schmid, Tomislav Volek, Milada Jonášová (eds.)
The 27th annual issue of Mozart Studien contains mainly the papers presented at the Prague Mozart Congress, which took place on 2-3 June 2018 under the patronage of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prof. RNDr. Eva Zažímalová, CSc. The opening study by Manfred Hermann Schmid (University of Tübingen) deals with the very special subject of the two slow movements of the Paris Symphony, KV 297. Jürgen Maehder (University of Lugano / Taipei) has for many years specialised in the field of the “artistic concept of the orchestra sound” in Mozart’s time; on this occasion he considers this theme in relation to the cemetery scene in Don Giovanni. Milada Jonášová examines Mozart’s opera fragment Il regno delle Amazoni, which she compares with the opera of the same name by Agostino Accorimboni. Ulrich Konrad (University of Würzburg) compares various versions by Mozart of his Maurerische Trauermusik. Tomislav Volek reports on a so far unpublished programme of the last concert by Josefa Dušková in Vienna in 1798, which confirms the view about the origin of the opera La clemenza di Tito which he published in 1959. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert (G. Henle Verlag München) discusses the basic sources for Mozart’s most popular Piano Sonata, in A major, KV 331: half of the autograph, discovered in Budapest in 2014; the oldest copy, auctioned in Munich in 2017; and a further contemporary copy, to be found in the musical collection of the Cistercian monastery in Osek. The wide range of themes covered in the other presentations includes the specific social commission of one of Mozart’s sacred compositions in Salzburg, discussed by Werner Rainer (Salzburg), while the paper by Rupert Ridgewell from the British Library focuses on the subject of Mozart’s variations on one of Dittersdorf’s arias. Further contributions to the publication come from Josef-Horst Lederer with a comparison of Gluck’s aria “Se mai senti spirarti sul volto” and the slow movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto, KV 467; Manfred Hermann Schmid with a study of terzettos in Mozart’s oeuvre; and Milada Jonášová with two comparative studies of recently discovered sources originating in Prague for the operas Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, Le nozze di Figaro, Der Schauspieldirektor, and La finta giardiniera. A separate section of the publication is devoted to articles about the founder of Neue Mozart Ausgabe, Ernst Fritz Schmid.
Im Auftrag des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik und der Mozart-Gemeinde in der Tschechischen Republik, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2020, 500 s. ISBN 978-3-99012-812-1
