Mozart's Operas (A Centennial Book)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 16, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780520078727
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Opera; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; Music/Songbooks; Operas; Music; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; General; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Opera; 1756-1791; 1756-1791.
First sentence: When the score of Idomenco first appeared in print in 1806, the composer-critic Johann Friedrich Reichardt proclaimed it "the purest art work that even our Mozart ever completed."