Don Giovanni unter Druck

Die Verbreitung der Mozart-Oper als instrumentale Kammermusik im deutschsprachigen Raum bis 1850

By (author) Andrea Klitzing

Book cover: Don Giovanni unter Druck

Extent: 299 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(August 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111917

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

Der Band halt neue und uberraschende Erkenntnissen fur die Musikforschung bereit, kann er doch zeigen, dass die fruhste Form der Aneignung der Mozart-Oper durch breite Bevolkerungsschichten die Kammermusik-Bearbeitung war.


The great and worldwide attention that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni received in music historiography has long concealed the fact, that the earliest form of its dissemination and appropriation took place on a small scale: the arrangement. Up until 1850, arrangements of Don Giovanni were edited in the German-speaking countries in ever-increasing numbers and for various instrumental chamber music ensembles. Andrea Klitzing researched more than 300 Don Giovanni-arrangements and summarized them in a table with exceptionally detailed information. The book “Don Giovanni unter Druck” is devoted to the contextualization and interpretation of those print editions. It allows a re-evaluation of the arrangement in general and lights up its music-historiographical and epistemological significance.

  • By (author) Andrea Klitzing