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Mozart had been commissioned to compose a requiem by Count Franz von Walsegg to be performed on the anniversary of his wife Anna's death on February 14 of 1791. Left incomplete upon Mozart's untimely death on December 5th the same year, Mozart's widow Constanze (anxious to receive the last half of the payment for the commission) entrusted the completion first to Joseph von Eybler - who returned the manuscript in frustration after working on the Dies irae through the Lacrimosa. Constanze then assigned the task to Franz Xaver Sussmayr who finished the task so the score was dispatched to the count in the Spring of 1792 complete with his forged signature of the composer dated the same year. Walsegg had a reputation for passing off the works of other composers as his own and was no doubt planning to do likewise with Mozart's work. He was not the only person to receive a copy of Sussmayr's completion, for Constanze sold one to the King of Prussia in March of 1792. Despite the stipulation in the commission that the work not be published, Constanze ultimately sold copies of the work to Breitkopf & Harel and Johann Andre. Walsegg was additionally upstaged for the premiere by a benefit performance given on January 2, 1793 in Vienna for Constanze.The generous-format study score offered here is a newly engraved and thoroughly researched edition by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr. based upon the Mozart's holgraph fragment, Sussmayr's completion and other primary sources. IMSLP page Wikipedia article

Die Zauberflöte ist eine Oper in zwei Aufzügen, die 1791 im Freihaustheater in Wien uraufgeführt wurde. Das Libretto stammt von Emanuel Schikaneder, die Musik komponierte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Zur Handlung: Der junge Prinz Tamino wird von der Königin der Nacht ausgesandt, um ihre Tochter Pamina zu retten, die vom Fürsten Sarastro entführt wurde. Der Vogelfänger Papageno wird Tamino zur Seite gestellt. Tamino erhält eine Zauberflöte, Papageno ein magisches Glockenspiel, beides von den bis jetzt noch freundlichen Drei Damen der Königin der Nacht. Sie brechen auf, um Pamina zu befreien. Papageno findet Pamina in Sarastros Reich und berichtet ihr, dass der verliebte Tamino zu ihrer Rettung aufgebrochen ist. Sie wollen fliehen, um Tamino entgegenzueilen, treffen dabei jedoch auf Monostatos, dem sie mit Hilfe des Glockenspiels entkommen.... Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812) war Schauspieler, Sänger, Regisseur, Dichter und Theaterdirektor. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), war ein Komponist der Wiener Klassik. Sein umfangreiches Werk genießt weltweite Popularität und gehört zum bedeutendsten im Repertoire klassischer Musik (Die Hochzeit des Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Requiem...)

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