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Sarti’S Fra I Due Litiganti And Opera In Vienna, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Giuseppe Sarti's opera Fra i due litiganti, premiered in Milan in 1782, was the first great success of the reconstituted Italian opera company in Vienna in 1783. The opera sustained its enormous Viennese popularity for years, while also being performed in over one hundred other European cities by 1800. Mozart's quotation of the work in Don Giovanni testifies to its continuing appeal. But the version of the opera that was so successful in many parts of Europe differed substantially from the Milanese original. The surviving manuscript scores and printed librettos reveal that a standardized Viennese version of Fra i …

A Mozart Duet In A Sarti Opera: ‘Là Ci Darem La Mano’ In Udine, 1793 [Post-Print], John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Giuseppe Sarti's opera buffa Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode was one of the great operatic successes of the late eighteenth century. First performed in Milan in September 1782, the opera was quickly taken up by theatres in other cities. In 1783 it began a long run at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where it had been performed more than sixty times by 1790. The opera was produced everywhere from Barcelona to Copenhagen, from Rouen to St Petersburg, in languages including German, French and Danish. By 1800 Fra i due litiganti had been given more than eighty productions across all …

"Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication Of Veterans' Disabilities In Civil War Era Popular Songs, Devin Burke

Faculty Scholarship

IN October of 1863, two years into the Civil War, a short editorial titled "Empty Sleeves" appeared on the front page of the Staunton Spectator.1 It addressed a question that had become familiar in the wake of the war's unprecedented violence; namely, how to encounter, or how to look at (in both the literal and figurative senses), the quickly growing population of veterans whose injuries marked them as "disabled:' This question could be cause for considerable anxiety in able-bodied Americans whose beliefs were shaped by Victorian and muscular Christian values.

Review Of Mozart’S Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study Of Stylistic Re- Invention, By Simon P. Keefe (Woodbridge, Uk, And Rochester, Ny, 2007) And Mozart’S Piano Music, By William Kinderman (Oxford And New York, 2006), John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

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Review-Essay: A New History For Martin's Una Cosa Rara, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

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Reviewed Works:

Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà: dramma giocoso by Vincente Martín y Soler, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Gerhard Allroggen;

Una cosa rara ossia Bellezza ed onestà by Vincete Martín I Soler, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maria Angeles Peters, Montserrat Figueras, Gloria Fabuel, Ernesto Palacio, Inaki Fresán, Fernando Belaza-Leoz, Stafano Palatchi, Francesc Garrigosa, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

Mozart And His Rivals: Opera In Vienna In Mozart's Time, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

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Musical And Dramatic Structure In The Opera Buffa Finale, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

This essay, based on an examination of the finales of Mozart's operatic contemporaries in Vienna, will attempt to characterize the buffo finale more accurately than has until now been possible and correct certain misconceptions about the principles on which it is built. At the same time such an investigation reveals the limitations of basing an understanding of Viennese opera on the works of Mozart alone. And it illustrates the possibilities of an essentially new approach to this repertory: the critical evaluation of Mozart's operas, for the first time, within the stylistic context provided by a detailed knowledge of the operatic …

Review Of Rhythmic Gesture In Mozart: "Le Nozze Di Figaro"And "Don Giovanni", By Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago, 1983)., John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

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